Two Poems ("It Happens in Spring"/"Covid Fears") Published In "Constellations V. 11: Redirections"

 

      Pleased to end the year with a publication in the anthology put out by Nina Rubinstein Alonso. Two poems written in 2021 "It Happens in Spring," about the phenomena regarding the increase in suicide when things begin to bloom. The second "Covid Fears," is obvious from it's title. The timing is perfect as currently I'm isolated for ten days because of an exposure. I've not tested yet, and I feel fine, but will not be exposing others.

Below the pictures of my work are the full list of contributors, and I've included the people I know or met in red! I'd include a link how to purchase, but if you don't know how to buy a book on-line by now....

MK Punky: “The Frog in the Water Set to Boil”

• Christine Schott: “Another Introduction to Poetry”
• Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn: “Places I Could Have Grieved”
• Richard E. Brenneman: “I Must Hope”
• Jamilla D. VanDyke-Bailey: “eight & seventeen”
• Thomas Belton: “Resonance”
• Joseph Hardy: “In a Week of Sun”
• Mary Soon Lee: “Directions to Utopia”
• CD Collins: “Fade Time”
• Lorin Lee Cary: “The Road Less Travelled”
• Steve Gerson: “Even a sip to cleanse”
• Ken Elliott: “Firemen in a Grocery Store”
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• Amber Watson: “Wheels in Motion”
• Chris Belden: “Trash, Keep, Maybe”
• Johanna DeMay: “Unresolved” / “Domestic Terrorism”
• Beate Sigriddaughter: “Clipped” / “Cassandra’s Ghost” / “A Girl’s Voice”
• Pui Ying Wong: “Practicality” / “Air Show”
• Eugene Platt: “How I Escaped the Holocaust”
• Erik Moyer: “HIPAA Violations”
• Lee Grossman: “Aaron’s Illness”
• Sarah Iler: “Map”
• Jacqueline Schaalje : “All the things I missed”
• Wendell Smith: “Elective Activity Nov. 4, 2020”
• Thaddeus Rutkowski: “Changeups”
• Terry Allen: “Woodpeckers”
• John Hicks: “Burning Privacy” / “Hell Has Its Own Food Chain”
• Heather Truett: “Sleeping Beauty”
• John M. Davis: “some characters in search of a marriage”
• Marc Dickerson: “(Not) The End of the World”
• James Croal Jackson: “Going to a Concert”
• Michael Estabrook: “because it’s so cold outside”
• Kasha Martin Gauthier: “Progression”
• Lisa Trudeau: “Temporal Complications of Lunch with an Ex”
• Nancy Smiler Levinson: “I Don’t Want to Learn Anything New About Technology” / “Compose Me in a Poem”
• Ziaul Moid Khan: “The Mud House”
• Jan Ball: “Daily Work” / “His Name First”
• Alexander Houk: “Dreaming of a Simpler Life”
• Timothy Gager: “It Happens in Spring” / “Covid Fears”
• David Donna: “Party Poem” / “Shared Desk”
• Virginia Bach Folger: “Vanishings”
• Kitty Beer: “Mrs. Professor Bostwick”
• Karen Klein: “Night Lights” / “12/31”
• Janna Knittel: “Wardrobe” / “In Deep”
• Karin Aurino: “Your Name is Second Wife”
• Ace Boggess: “A Perfect Sadness”
• Tim Suermondt: “Extraordinary”
• Krikor N. Der Hohannesian: “At the Edge of the Cliff”
• Ed Meek: “Royal Rendezvous in August” / “Boom Box”
• Deborah Leipziger: “What is home”
• Nathaniel Gutman: “Furtwängler”
• Brian Lutz: “Turtles All the Way Down”
• Anthony Hagen: “Theory of Ourselves” / “False Theory of Ourselves”
• Michael Todd Steffen: “Versus” / “Creature in the Living Room”
• Karen Regen-Tuero: “The Promise of Future Happiness”
• Jake Bailey: “Portrait of Divorce as a Path to Love”
• Peter Grandbois: “The Room” / “And still the heart”
• Gaby Bedetti: “Frozen” / “Reception” / “Shadow” / “Vaccine Line”
• Eva Eliav: “Autumn 2020: Five Poems”
• Cameron Morse: “Night Fright”
• Pesach Rotem: “Even in America”
• Lo Galluccio: “Two Sonnets for Leah”
• Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton: “Revisions”
• Gerard Sarnat: “Universal Soldier’s Kaddish for Rolling Thunder” / “Comfy Old Shoe”
• DeWitt Henry: “On Wonder”
• Bethany Reid: “The Rule of Three”
• Zvi A. Sesling: “All’s Well That Ends Well” / “Lost Uncle”
• Bert Stern: “Waiting for Rain” / “BSA”
• Nina Rubinstein Alonso: “Dizzy Le Carré” / “Turning Lesson”
• Kathleen Spivack: “Looking at Water”
• Tomas O’Leary: “The Less of Me / “Detente at the Nihilists Convention” / “What You Found”