2020: A year in review
The year began with disappointments, echoes of 2019, clinging to a part-time job that bridged school and work, a community away from home. Winter blues shattered by a February call— my brother found incoherent, incapable of living alone, hospitalized, then placed in residence. A deep dread consumed not hours or days, but months, it devoured my sleep, as COVID devoured my writing. Dark, angry poems poured from me like syrup, ideas that wouldn't let go. Life closed in like the walls that held me. A conscious effort, a calculated risk, took me to the man I now claim. A single hug rekindled a flicker of hope, as vaccines and elections blew on the embers. A new project commitment carries me into 2021, only looking back to rewrite the future.