Nearly all of these poems were written in 2020, the year in which covid-19 moved from China, to Europe, to the United States-an amazing series of movements that changed our lives.
Infections.
Deaths.
Face masks, distancing, personal isolation.
Racial protests.
Civic chaos.
Global instability.
The burdens were great, and still are-the lingering deleterious effects of Trump's corrupt administration and his non-functioning Senate.
The covid-.