Anniversary of the End of the World
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Dawn, March 13th, 2024.
Four years ago the world shut down. Does it all seem like a bad dream to us now? Four years ago I was driving back to Winona from Houston and the radio was full of frantic closure notices. The world was shutting down. A year or so later I wrote a poem about that experience–here it is, accompanied by an early crocus.
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