Scratchy throat, a cough
(but only once in a while),
bleeding from the eyes.
• • •
everything is coronavirus
haiku for 10/10/20
Tag: COVID-19
something in the air
haiku for 9/23/20
Health care’s finest are
sitting down to lunch while they’re
poisoning the room.
• • •
bugaboo
haiku for 9/4/20
amoral adversary
haiku for 8/24/20
The virus doesn’t
punish bad behavior or
reward good. It just is.
• • •
pandemic plan zero
haiku for 8/21/20
We’ve tried absolute-
ly nothing, and yet the num-
bers keep going up.
• • •
lessons in world geography
haiku for 8/19/20
The other countries
did it right in beating the
pandemic. We balked.
• • •
an alabama loophole
haiku for 8/14/20
Schools practice social
distancing for teachers, kids
(except for football).
• • •
no good choices, back-to-school edition
haiku for 8/13/20
Set them in front of
a screen, or set them loose in
a germy classroom.
• • •
surrounded by patients zero
haiku for 7/25/20
Every cough suspect,
every forehead possibly
ablaze, bugs abound.
• • •
cause and effect and effect and effect
haiku for 7/7/20
The numbers climb. The
hospitals struggle. The world
trudges on weakly.
• • •