~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Beauty
            (After Eudora Welty’s picture “Blind Weaver on the WPA,” from One Time, One Place)

Warp and weft, the blind weaver’s hands
move like swallows looming in spring rain

and spreading chirps of joy. They skim
the green meadow and the rippling water

when the sun comes out. What they make
is a nest of dream long seen in the mind.

Notes Taken During Covid-19

farewell
two friends foot shake
at the bus station

social distancing
an awkward smile
exchanged

insidious time
a statue
masked as well

virus impact
packages returned
to the sender

another gloomy day
gray sky gray rain
gray feeling

window view
looking
for a piece of looking

Reading at Risk
       after a cartoon in The Reader’s Digest

As soon as she opens the book
words jump tinkling on the floor
for a joy of leisure time.

They rap and tap, jerk and jazz,
salsa and cha-cha. She and
the book are wordless.