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COVID-19
L. Shapley Bassen
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A crown doesn't make a monarch.
Tyrants rule in various ways.
How like a virus indifference is.
Stay together by staying apart.
Confinement leads to epigram.
The equinox has passed. Now light
at end of tunnels grow brighter
in our imaginations. Still dark
within. I have watched how
honeysuckle grows, casting green
like a fly fisherman. Its flower
contains rain in a fragrant cup.
Deaths rise. Monarchs fall.
Indifference won't kill US.
L. Shapley Bassen is a native New Yorker. Bassen is a fiction editor for Craft Literary and has won two prizes, published stories, novels, poetry, and book reviews.
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
