Pandemic Poems - APRIL 2020
Bio Note: I typed my first poem as a child under an Australian almond tree on my grandfather's
typewriter, but claim Wisconsin as home now. My latest collection is The Blind Lifeguard, recently
released from Finishing Line Press and I have four other chapbooks. I once received enough prize money
from a national poetry contest to fund a Dairy Queen run.
Gather
I dreamt we could all
stand together
Nothing grand, like a rally,
fireworks, a graduation
Just watching something,
a concert,
a lecture,
a sunset
And then I woke to
the calling of the crows
Today, I will wave to
you from my tree and
maybe we can
sing
Take Back
The foxes are back in
the paused cities,
reclaiming silence
Venetian swans and dolphins
were, then weren’t
Pumas in Santiago,
wild boar in Barcelona
What is your heart’s
wild now,
in this unsettled quiet?
Choose a stillness
and
roam
Your Calendar on Pandemia
You watch each day’s
commitments float by
Cancelled everythings
All now just words on
days
And you begin to realize
there are two of you now:
the calendar you and
you, here, not there
and you can’t figure out
which could be the revenant,
which
the ghost
©2020 Katrin Talbot
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