by Jessica Renee Dawson
Pandemic light
baptized in four walls
every morning
Morning news
a beaver takes a walk
to the strip mall
Anticipation—
she waits for groceries
at her doorstep
Nature quest
she peaks through glass
to glimpse sky
Paper hearts
taped to the window
giving thanks
Home care aide
a medical mask
veils her smile
Accessorizing
her pink-toed socks
match pyjamas
Church pew:
a computer chair overflows
with prayer
Home hospital bed
the rising and falling
of her breath
Jessica Renee Dawson is a writer with disabilities living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She has taken poetry and English writing through North Island College and workshops with award winning poets, Lynne Knight, and Jan Zwicky. Dawson’s works have appeared in journals including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku Journal, Under the Bashō, The Tulane Review, Wild Plum, and Wales Haiku Journal. In April 2020, she was a haiku contest winner with Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, housed in California State University-Stanislaus. Sabiyha Prince is an anthropologist, artist, and author based in Washington, DC. Her books and essays explore urban change and African American culture, and her paintings and photo collages grapple with memory, identity, kinship and inequality.
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