A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Elaine (Lainey) Schear is the founding member of the Z Street Writers, a long-running Boston-based writing collective. Her poetry and prose appear in Between Us, the group’s 2021 poetry-prose publication. In addition to her chapbook, Nine Hours from Oswego, her poetry and prose have appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, Jewish Currents, The Dewdrop, Pennsylvania English, Pearl, J Journal, Blueline, The Banyan Review, and The Boston Globe. She is a writing instructor, tutor, and founder of a non-profit supporting academic opportunity for promising public high school students whose families have limited financial resources. Contact her at lainey.schear@gmail.com
Nulla in mundo pax sincera Between seasons the aria flows above a movement of pines. To the East, green to autumn rust, to the West, red bark to char. Major dissolves to minor. The soloist’s voice clings, sostenuto, on a truth we cannot hold, that In the world there is no honest […]