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.

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