Wuhan Compassion Haiku

young nurses
make a Great Wall
with their bodies

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spring redbuds
we watch the epidemic
bloom on t.v.

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a quarantine
the neighbor so quiet
you can hear spring

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spring eggs
laid against anthropocentrism
once again

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the optimism
of my yard’s sparrows
the real news
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I love ghostly love–
the way I say “my”
in “my sparrows”

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city locked down
with epidemic…
the crows louder

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isolation ward–
a patient asks
to see the moon

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the virus
silence spreads
room to room

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