Pandemic Poems - APRIL 2020
Bio Note: I am a poet and fiber artist in San Bernardino, CA. I am exploring performance poetry
in collaboration wearing my own costumes based on my books. Nature, myths, and stories (mine or others) are
a main source of inspiration. My poetry appeared or is forthcoming in: Anti-Heroin Chic, Unpsychology
Magazine, and MORIA.
Jellyfish
You glide
and ungulate
in community.
You create
patterns
in sunlight
like flipped
coins.
Don’t hurt
one another.
Transparent—
nothing to hide.
Once I feared
your sting.
Now your
movement
brings calm.
I am alone
with the pain
of trauma,
again.
Look Up
In renewal of spirit, geese ancestors join
generations and energy flows in harmony.
Their honking precedes seeing their flight.
They bring warning and hope for the new
as the virus spreads. Two geese in tandem.
Uncommon sight signals daffodils’ return.
Gardeners still cut the grass and blow it away.
Several times I hear in the store: There’s no rice.
Seeding a Different Future
Hummingbird drinks nearby
red and white salvia
not disturbed by my presence
while he pulls weeds.
The apricot tree sprouts
leaves in one day. I pay homage
to the fig. Leaves already large
enough to droop. Sun shines
through to create shadows
like pictographs. An unknown
tree establishes and thin bracts
stretch on the hillside. Result
of a seed dropped by a bird?
It’s my beloved’s birthday.
One he will never forget.
Only I can touch him.
©2020 Cindy Rinne
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