Groceries in the Time of COVID-19
empty smilers
float like motes
in the sunlit
grocery store
smiles are free
they have
strawberries
today, and there
is pasta
(groceries in gilead)
every trip
is the click
of a hammer
in a chamber
no bullets fired
we can’t
stay lucky
forever
Stephanie De Haven lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with her girlfriend and their many cats. She writes about life, death, love, disability, and dragons. Her work has most recently appeared in Jitter, 50Haikus, and Poetry Quarterly. Follow her @ SEDeHaven on Tumblr.
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