And Now It’s Time For A Musical Interlude
by | Jun 10, 2020 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
This morning definitely one of the most beautiful ever
At least from this tiny perspective never
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Poetry
New National Pastime
by | Jun 5, 2020 12:56 pm | Comments (1)
The rookies and the owners say we’re winning
But the old-timers who know the score best
Virus Anniversary Song
by | Jun 4, 2020 2:35 pm | Comments (0)
Reinaldo Goeyenechea/ La Voz Hispana
No one knows for certain when we first met, and died
But for our purposes let’s say you arrived
National PTSD
by | May 28, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
Ted Littleford
Wife still asleep all tucked in the bed
Turn on the TV, nearly a hundred thousand dead
Thou Shalt
by | May 27, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
Ted Littleford
In a couple of days
Comes the holiday
Don’t Die, Stanley
by | May 25, 2020 12:46 pm | Comments (2)
I was going to write that note to my friend Stanley
And all my friends and even acquaintances
We’ll Know It’s Over
by | May 22, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
We’ll know it’s over when only the customary nightmares resume
When I can pick at my nails again and not assume
a portal to death has been opened
Five Minutes With New Grandchild In Covid Times
by | May 19, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
She looked in person so much smaller than in the pictures
Sent from the hospital all red faced and with features
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Airborne
by | May 15, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
Sometimes I think I see the virus floating in the air
It often comes to me, as now, when in despair
Oh, Pandemic Mine
by | May 14, 2020 12:24 pm | Comments (2)
When you leave us, oh pandemic mine
Will we still write about love and death
Gardening In Covid Times
by | May 13, 2020 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
I planted some beets and some Russian kale
In the season of the plague, I thought
We Lost Joel
by | May 8, 2020 11:42 am | Comments (0)
He was once in this house and I went to see his plays
And laughed at his labored puns and afterwards toasted life
At A Stop & Shop In New Haven
by | May 7, 2020 3:09 pm | Comments (2)
With thanks to Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”
Donning mask, gloves, and baseball cap
Like a thief I go out to shop
Opening Up
by | May 6, 2020 11:53 am | Comments (1)
They told me to open up, they told me I was ready
They told me it was safe, measures had been taken
Nightmare Of The Narcissist
by | May 1, 2020 10:00 am | Comments (1)
with thanks to W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939,”
I sit here in a room
With my cable news and my Zoom
Your Six Feet Or Mine?
by | Apr 24, 2020 12:18 pm | Comments (2)
Dismal Toast
Here’s to the docs and the nurses, the cops and the medics
The cashiers and the clerks and the factory workers
Gratitude Goes Viral
by | Apr 20, 2020 5:16 pm | Comments (0)
(With gratitude to Good Night Moon.)
To give yourself over to sleep at night
And to wake into the morning light
To Infect Or Not To Infect
by | Apr 17, 2020 11:44 am | Comments (0)
To infect or not to infect? Isn’t that today’s question?
How else may I pose it? What other way could it be?
Sonnet For “Peak Death Week”
by | Apr 13, 2020 11:35 am | Comments (0)
My father’s favorite poem used to be
“They flee from me who once did me seek”
Trump Plague Fantasia
by | Apr 8, 2020 1:56 pm | Comments (4)
Trump Plague Fantasia
Pandemic Passover, Pandemic Easter
by | Apr 7, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
Pandemic Passover, Pandemic Easter
Pandemic Deadline Verse
by | Apr 3, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
Field Hospital, Central Park
For Stuart Kramer
A Sonnet For My Lungs
by | Mar 31, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
A Sonnet For My Lungs
Forgive me for thinking you’re always just there
Ventilators, Herd Immunity, And A Pandemic Sabbath
by | Mar 27, 2020 12:22 pm | Comments (0)
Pandemic Sabbath
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Covid-19 Deadline Verse
by | Mar 24, 2020 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
Hand Washing
Who doesn’t enjoy washing hands
With prompting even little kids do