A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Laura Glenn’s book of poems I Can’t Say I’m Lost was published by FootHills, and her chapbook When the Ice Melts was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Cortland Review, Epoch, Green Mountains Review, Hotel Amerika, Massachusetts Review, Pedestal, Poet Lore, Poetry, Smartish Pace, and Rattapallax, as well as in anthologies. She has completed work on another full-length book of poems, and is working on a chapbook of pandemic-related poems. Also a visual artist, she lives in Ithaca, NY, where she works as a freelance copy editor. See more of her work at www.lauraglennpoetandartist.com/
The deeper I burrow the closer I get to the dead, as if they could protect me. And they do. Death brought this vague plague to life for me—my loss incalculable. The roots of a hellebore poke through the earthen ceiling— last sign of winter, first of spring. Not ensconced alone, sometimes I hear […]