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 Magazine, Contemporary Haibun Online, Cleaver Magazine, Interim, 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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