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 May 2020 Isabel
Erin Riley
After
the first time
we danced,
I could never get our song
out of my head.
You said,

"we must’ve waltzed into each other in another life",

as we fell hard
once again.
 May 2020 Isabel
Zhanara
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 May 2020 Isabel
Zhanara
Don't  steal my night
Don't steal  my dream
I don't want to think about you
It takes my whole life
08/05/2020
 May 2020 Isabel
leah
My own woman
 May 2020 Isabel
leah
I’ve spent so long being my own woman,
I don’t know how to share myself anymore.

- Leah
People are so scared to be alone. But what about all of us that are so content being alone we don’t know how not to be?
 May 2020 Isabel
Ira Desmond
The parks are now empty of all but the trees.
The rot in the woodwork has made itself clear:
the virus reveals a more wicked disease.

If we watch each other with growing unease,
more sinister shadows may draw themselves near.
The parks are now empty of all but the trees.

The nurses and doctors make no guarantees;
their furrowed brows are not at all insincere.
But the virus reveals a more wicked disease.

While some may not fret at a cough or a sneeze,          
our day-to-day life shows a mask more austere:
the parks are now empty of all but the trees.

The wealthy can shelter on yachts overseas,
far-flung from the whims of our mad racketeer,
for he, too, was borne of this wicked disease.

But Justice may not brook the fraud she now sees,
her blindfold being repurposed as protective gear.
The parks are now empty of all but the trees,
and the virus reveals a more wicked disease.

— The End —