Simultaneous Concurrent Action

Glenda Funk

Bodies
belonging to no one:
Unclaimed
Anonymous
Alien lifeless forms
Abandoned,
Left like
Refuse stacked
Awaiting burial in
Mass graves on
Hart Island—
Interred by
Hazmat suit-clad diggers.
Meanwhile…
Covid-19 infected
Nurses—
First Responders—
Tend the infirm,
Themselves gravely
Ill—infected—
Unable to procure
PPE through
Flatlined supply chains
Unlinked==broken==disconnected;
Vital skills more
Requisite than
Vital signs.

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Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 in Poems Copyright © 2021 by Glenda Funk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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