Pandemic Poems - APRIL 2020
Peter Jastermsky
peterjastermsky@gmail.com
Bio Note: In normal times, I am a haiku-based poet, and write all the short forms that are part of this lineage. My pandemic poem "came to me", pretty much as it, in a non-haiku format, and it simply wrote itself. I live with my family in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park. My first haiku and senryu collection, Steel Cut Moon, is published by Cholla Needles Press. My second book, No Velcro Here, a collection of haibun, is published by Yavanika Press.

The New Death

it’s the way
it comes
sudden and brutal

the lungs
more like balloons
than we’d imagine

no goodbyes
except by 
walkie-talkie

the dying
and the broken
a grief

without language
©2020 Peter Jastermsky
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