[Critique Group 2] poem for March 19 critique session

[Alice Massa]

*To Your Health--Social Distancing*

Poem by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

Salud.

To your Health!

Toast with a cup of herbal tea

Or soothing poetry.

In times of trouble,

We should gather together.

However, now we must practice,

We must perfect

Social distancing

And weather this germ storm

Relatively alone.

In this world where too many

Do too much online,

We must now do more online.

Yet, have you seen the lines

For toilet tissue at the supermarket?

What will happen if the supermarkets close?

Will the National Guard deliver groceries?

When the National Guard knocks at my door,

Hopefully with rolls of toilet paper,

I will be writing poetry

Because, for me,

Poetry is therapy.

When I write poetry,

I lay aside my worry beads:

I focus only on the fancy and frivolity of the poem.

The words massage my tightened muscles.

The rhythm rolls me onto another shore.

The punctuation delights my spirit.

The revision is a tool I love to carve slowly.

The reading and re-reading of the verses embrace my soul.

In a poem, I find home, love, memories, strength--

The strength to awaken to a world

that will be a stranger to me.

Within this new, changed, strange world--

I will social distance--

After I dance with poetry.

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Number of words:212

Number of lines:42

March 12, 2020, Thursday

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