Corona #2
Pandemic Poetry
crown of worry, crown of cliches and bald spots and proverbial thorns,
crown of clouds, crown of whiskey neck shadows wreathed in lightning vines,
crown of emptiness, crown of hollow tree, of distance, of whistling bottle top,
crown of red sky, crown of sky sky, crown of moldy orange peels and turned wine,
crown of lost years, crown of bruises, of hangovers, the vestiges of phantom night,
crown of blindspot, of fingernail grime, of burial and root and cellar smell,
crown of salt lick, crown of soiled wedding veil, crown of absence, of church bell,
crown of crib death, crown of nurse breath, crown of lungs like water balloons,
crown of funeral home, crown of pandemic, crown of panic attacks and tequila,
crown of xanex, of lily bloomed interstate, of toothache reunions, spiderweb serenades,
crown of war, of famine, of pestilence, crown of prophecy and ruin and love,
crown of heartbreak, of America, of coral reef, glacier and Amazon scars,
crown of Earth Day, of abortion, of adoption, of Mars Rover song,
crown of worry, crown of dust bowl, crown of crypt keepers and spades,
crown of the last days, of laughter, of swing set chains and squeaking breeze,
crown of sound, crown of vibrations, crown of travel with or without a destination,
crown of the end or crown of the beginning, crown of hope or crown of nothing at all,
crown of prayer, of Alpha or Omega, crown of hope, and crown of nothing at all.
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