Then

Alex Berkley

Then,
We walked
Finally
Back to real life
Weeks told in headlines:
“People Free To Do Things”
“Life To Be White Noise Again”
Papers sell like hotcakes today
But I notice eyes searching the sky
Waiting for metaphorical asteroids

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

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