Meditations in an Emergency

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/opinion/20200322/meditations-in-emergency-poetry-for-coronavirus-outbreak

You don’t want me to go where you go. There won’t be any mail downstairs. And the country is less funny, not just darker.

But what struck me most in reading this, is that it wasn’t necessarily these poems I needed — it was poetry in general.

The lights are out and the buildings shuttered and the last can of beans is rolling down the supermarket floor.

I needed some kind of poetry. Something that gave me hope. Some bit of beauty. Something that spoke about the best of humanity.