Poems
Links:
Three of my pandemic poems appear on Indolent Books' What Rough Beast poem-a-day series about our current world:
I interpret Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge..."
For First Parish Church, Lexington
Click here (15 minutes, followed by Q&A).
The Crypt of the Capuchins
Image Journal, Issue 103 (includes audio)
Image Journal, Issue 103 (includes audio)
Exclusive in New York for Bergdorf Goodman
Nixes Mate Review, Issue 9
Compose Journal
Audio of Cammy Reading Robert Frost's "Design"
YouTube
Home Or Harm You Can Only Make One
Poets.org
“The Blues in My Heart, The Rhythm in My Soul”
Missouri Review
Concord Academy reading
“Hunting”
Poetry Society of America
“Ring"
Mass Poetry
Indolent Books
Transition Poem # 59: Poems in the Aftermath
Nothing Fatal
How about a morsel of corona,
a slight hint, barely audible
above the vacuum cleaner,
a marvelous morsel not requiring
starvation or transportation
to the outer rings of Saturn—
nothing fatal, maybe
like a yellow jacket
when you’re not allergic,
a drop of stale virus
no longer strong enough
to bring a woman down,
just ambiance of ambulance,
enough to keep you in your house
swabbing the stairs, wiping
knobs and handles with alcohol
as you tell yourself you’ll recover
like your friends, even though
his lung collapsed and she
became a talking wraith—
just a morsel for you now,
to render you immune.