What Rough Beast | Covid-19 Edition | 04 23 20 | Sarah G. Huerta

Sarah G. Huerta
Quarantine Season

I’m watching some Dallas judge on TV talk
about toilet paper and what we can and cannot flush,
seeing more neighbors outside in flannel pajamas
than I ever knew existed, learning more about my
disorder lurking in the depths of my bipolar brain,
experiencing, for the first time, my red state standing
together (but not my president), writing down
what the block and the disorder previously kept
in a chokehold, my words and pen bruised and bloody
among this outbreak.

Sarah G. Huerta self-describes as a poet, cat mom, writing consultant, and coffee enthusiast. They received the Stephan Ross Huffman Memorial Poetry Award from the Department of English at Texas Tech University, where they are nearing graduation with a BA in creative writing. They will begin the MFA in program in creative writing at Texas State University in the fall. They live in Lubbock with their cat, Lorca.

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