3 Pandemic Poems from poet Michele Mekel

Time’s Naiveté

In the photo,

my year-younger self,

innocence latent,

discovered too late.

 

That year-ago lifetime, 

in a world before Covid,

so alien now 

in this realm rife with death.

Counting Tomorrows

How many

of these tomorrows

must we endure

before the clock

turn backs to 

a semblance of

yesterday?

  

Urban Apparition

I am like a ghost, 

wandering the city and

haunting long-dead pasts.

May 27, 2020