What Rough Beast | 10 08 20 | Judson Evans

Judson Evans
September Covid Journal: 9 Haiku

mass stranding
of red tide squid—
Trump rally

late summer moon-viewing—
even the moon
is masked

politicized times
noticing the color
of the mailbox

Nightmare Tech—
everyone I hate
in a zoom box

Mega-Church
pancake breakfast
superspreaders…

reopened beach—
broken bottles
not yet sea glass

What stays in Vegas?
disinfecting the dice
throw after throw

measuring the pandemic
by lengths
of her hair

weekday morning
the other “zoom”—

—Submitted on 09/28/2020

Poems by Judson Evans have appeared in Pedestal MagazineContemporary Haibun OnlineCleaver MagazineInterim, and Salt Hill Journal, among other journals, as well as in the anthologies New Smoke: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by Neo Rauch (Off the Park Press, 2009), Viva La Difference: Poems in Response to Peter Saul (Off the Park Press, 2010), and The Triumph of Poverty: Poems Inspired by Nicole Eisenman (Off the Park Press, 2012), all edited by John Yau. Evans is a professor of liberal arts and sciences at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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