After those first weeks came the relief of a partial easing. Then we had further easing - and more lockdowns.
Frustration and fear permeated those days before vaccines were developed. But so did hope and new patterns of connection. The poems offer the life-affirming possibilities of facing new times with hope and with love.
And always with an ironic sense of the ridiculous.
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