SECOND WAVE ISOLATION: Learning to Reframe the View
(Awarded Honorable Mention, 2020: The Ontario Poetry Society, Pandemic Poetry Contest)
Every day the same view through the northern window the same neighbour’s fence still only partly painted same trampoline cage behind the fence bobbing heads on weekends. Every day the same cement-coloured sky presses down like a slowly collapsing ceiling on those dark, pointy-top spruce trees those white birches in the distance. Until I look again and see the safe enclosure of the neighbour’s yard those evergreen tips pointing fierce as a mother’s finger sturdy birches whose torsos glow in the light of a singular sunbeam.
