• Current Issue
  • Past Issues
    • Over Tea and Tears
    • Corona Hopelings
    • Anthology
    • Who We Are
    • Submit
    • Contact
    • Buy us coffee
    • Support Us
  • Search
Menu

Bracken

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number
Magazine of lyrical poetry and art

born of the love of the woods and its shadows

Bracken

  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Past Projects
    • Over Tea and Tears
    • Corona Hopelings
    • Anthology
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Submit
    • Contact
    • Buy us coffee
    • Support Us
  • Search

Nonhaiku Written During the Days of Contagion

April 27, 2020 Alina Rios

by John Burgess


*

no one makes eye contact
like that’s the way
this virus spreads

*

gray sky—
the same color
as my 2-week beard!

*

behind this mask
passersby can’t see
me smile

*

behind this mask
a feeling
I did something wrong


John Burgess lives and writes in Seattle.

More hopelings…

In corona hopeling Tags part1
← Corona HopelingsCalculations of Angels / Artemis Hunted →

© 2025 Bracken Magazine and respective creators.