Anxiety – Jenny Justice

Wildfire Afternoon

Wildfire AfternoonA Poem We play Animal Crossing until noon, and then Swim in the apartment complex pool With the tiny bodies of flies, bees, and moths as Company, pray tell what ambitions should one have in a pandemic, What poems should a poet write, What odes to nature when nature is on fire? What ode to humanity When humanityContinue reading “Wildfire Afternoon”

Animal Crossing

Animal CrossingA 2020 American Haiku Series I plant flowersCatch bugs and run Around my own island Nothing is on fireNo one has a virus Everyone is friendly Escape into Animal Crossing Is a 2020 mood If only we could give giftsEat fruit and sell weeds and branchesIn real life The night comes I talk to a ghost The goals are rewardingContinue reading “Animal Crossing”

COVID Party USA

America is one big Covid PartyOutside my window, down below A baby shower is taking place Tables and tables of people, a DJ, catering Not a mask in sight, I sigh and pull down the shadeAmerica is hopped up on COVID now, like anything Else, we are easily addicted, easily fooled, peopleKeep thinking kids need theirContinue reading “COVID Party USA”

Float

Why is it that just after the sermon on letting go, I feel better, then, by 4pm in the afternoon,I pick it up again, that old hurt, that old heavy, that old grasping needy cling, I can be sitting here doing fine and then bam, triggered, and my hands are full of it again. Then IContinue reading “Float”

Hope

In the checkout line the woman behind me asks if I had seen any hand sanitizer or cleaning wipes, I said no I had not, my cart full of some basics, not a haul, not a stash, not a hoard, just spinach, mushrooms, bread and butter, some eggs, some milk not enough to get anyoneContinue reading “Hope”

Okay

And now that it is here what else can we do but Learn acceptance We felt waiting we felt wanting we felt tension And now this And all other feelings have to passAs we take hold of the moment that is now That feels like chaos that feels like something we must Reign in that feels likeContinue reading “Okay”

I don’t know if I’m a person anymore or just a thing that fights

We said we would do it later And the joke is, the thing is, time We wanted a break, a rest, we wanted And now we would break down for a bit of certainty A bit of routine, a bit of it’s safe, it’s safe, it’s all clearI don’t know if I’m a person anymore or justContinue reading “I don’t know if I’m a person anymore or just a thing that fights”