Omicron assaulted me
with bronchitis, pneumonia, its
ground glass not lacerating
lungs but obscuring eupnea…
like grounding out in baseball,
failing to catch a fly, my breath.
Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse News, an online journal of current-events poetry.
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