Sylvia Hillo
Covid-19 and the Five-Year-Old
He hated germs long before you arrived
Stripping him of mud
Of social fun during a time
Social developing is so important
Mothers at their wit’s end
Sharing sad stories of personal disappointment.
I’m not a teacher
I go to school to be a teacher
Cold and flu season
Tis’ the reason
Cough’s nonstop but so is the preschool snot
Potatoes bought in bulk now sit and rot
Sanity hangs by a thread
Chickens reside in an old tenant’s shed
Bed sounds so good, but
when will it end?
—Submitted on 03/23/2020
Sylvia Hillo self-describes as “a mother and full-time student.” She writes, “like so many others, I have found myself in a situation I was blindsided by. I reside in Los Angeles, Calif., and am a student at California State University Northridge.”
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