"Behind My Mask"

Behind my mask

I'm smiling

If you can't see

Just ask.

June 26, 2020

"Search for Meaning"

In my search for meaning

In a World not known for such

I'm busy quarantining

  (and staying out-of-touch.)

June 20, 2020

"Take a Bow"

People are waving now
That we're out of doors again
They might even take a bow
(If manners weren't in disdain.)

June 17, 2020

"Three Easy Steps"

Pandemic to pandemonium

In three easy steps

Unless you find plutonium

(And skip a few precepts.)

June 1, 2020

"What Matters"

Everyone at home
Health and safety what matters

(we're all women now)

May 18, 2020

"Springtime Emerges"

Black bear hibernates;—
Springtime emerges to growl

At white masked faces.

May 17, 2020

"Spring Bursts Forth"

Spring bursts forth again
Nature's flower is unmasked;

we cover faces.

May 16, 2020

"Spiked Bombs Fall"

Chinese invasion:

Invisible spiked bombs fall;

we shelter-in-place.

May 14, 2020

"Stop the World"

If it saves one life

Stop the world from spinning

This brings more strife

(But at least we are winning.)

May 13, 2020

"Comes to Pass"

When none of this comes to pass

And all you hear is crickets

Get ready for the next morass

(Doomsayers stamping tickets.)

May 9, 2020

"The Same Guys"

The same guys did projections

For climate as for COVID-19

Let's hope they make corrections

Given results we've seen.

May 9, 2020

"Apologies for Pseudonym"

I wear this mask to protect you

From virus borne on sputum

So you won't catch the "flu"

(Apologies for pseudonym.)

May 9, 2020

"In Ways Hysterical"

Leave the screeching to women

Let them be chimerical

It's unbecoming of grown men

To behave in ways hysterical.

May 9, 2020

"All Your Spittle"

My question, Chicken Little

When none of this comes to pass

Will you clean up all your spittle?

(And quit being such an ass.)

May 9, 2020

Through the Window, Across the Road | May 9, 2020

Amy Königbauer is currently working on collecting experiences of people living in self-isolation, quarantine, and the working-or-not-working-from-home times of Covid-19. A work in progress consisting of making photographs, collaborating with Beck Norman, and looking for writers to submit their work. A collection of images, poems, and prose will arrive the summer of 2020. 

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Calling for submissions of 1000 words or less from Vermont-based poets and writers, written during this period of global quarantine, due to Covid-19.

In collaboration with photographers Beck Norman and Amy Königbauer, selected writings will be considered for publication, to accompany safely shot portraits (through windows and across streets) of friends and neighbors living throughout our communities, during these unique and wild times of self-isolation.

Suggested themes for submissions are: impact, access, equity, ups and downs, community, longing, grief, sickness, loneliness, loss, fortune, abundance, time, productivity, the future, how you’re feeling, communication (or the lack thereof), change, connection, solitude, transformation. 

Please submit up to three pieces. Works longer than 1000 words will not be considered. 

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 9th, 2020. All works must be received by 11:59pm.

Questions and submissions can be sent to throughthewindowacrosstheroad@gmail.com

"Somebody's Buying Somewhere"

Somebody's buying somewhere
Hope springs eternal still
The business of America is business
That spirit you just can't kill.

May 4, 2020

"Save the Breed"

Woman, you're hysterical

As Life hangs by a reed

Some of us must stay logical

If we are to save the breed.

May 3, 2020

"Old Enough to Remember"

I'm old enough to remember

The last End of the World

Why it was in November

(When our flag was unfurled.)

May 3, 2020

"Gandalf's Staff"

Too cool by half
What you offer up as fixes
Unlike Gandolf's staff
Your fixing our World nixes.

May 2, 2020

"Headed to the Store"

They say the World is ending
Brother, we've been there before
Despite the spittle they're expending
I'm headed to the store.

May 2, 2020