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City Behind Closed Windows

A scene-led poem about covid and the details that first bring it near.

Morning opened at the city behind closed windows. Sirens divided the night into anxious distances. Masked faces learned to smile with their eyes. This was how COVID entered: without announcement, carrying the knowledge that separation revealed how deeply lives are joined.

- Elian Moss

Before the Word

A quieter poem about recognizing covid before it can be explained.

There are many names for COVID. I chose the one made by this moment: A grocery bag at the doorstep became a form of love. It did not explain itself. It simply stayed until the heart could hear it.

- Clara North

What Remained

A reflective poem about what covid leaves in the mind and heart.

The day kept moving. Sirens divided the night into anxious distances. Still, something had changed. Masked faces learned to smile with their eyes. The ordinary world had made room for COVID and would not close around it again.

- Mira Vale

Micro Verses

Under the word COVID, sirens divided the night into anxious distances.

- Elian Moss

Masked faces learned to smile with their eyes. The silence listened.

- Clara North

A grocery bag at the doorstep became a form of love. So COVID became visible.

- Mira Vale

Deeper Explorations

The Visible Detail

Poems that find COVID in a concrete image and let the scene carry its own meaning.

Evidence

At the city behind closed windows, sirens divided the night into anxious distances. I wrote nothing down. The image had already remembered itself.

- Elian Moss

The Inner Weather

Short poems about the emotional current beneath COVID, held with patience and clarity.

Afterward

A grocery bag at the doorstep became a form of love. Afterward, the heart made one small room for the truth that separation revealed how deeply lives are joined.

- Mira Vale

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