“I felt it shelter to speak to you.” —Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
EDITOR’S NOTE

WILLIAM ALLEGREZZA
A Wicked World in All Meridians
Again, IN Place (with video)
Assented to Shelter

IVY ALVAREZ
Buwanin
Úsapang máginoó
What remains

RONDA PISZK BROATCH
How to Stay Sane When the World Seems Crazy
When I Said I Wasn’t Afraid of Wintering

MEGAN DUFFY BROWN
Which Boat

CYNTHIA BUIZA
Home Alone
Blue Thursday
Nocturnes

MICHAEL CAYLO-BARADI
Prelude to a Quieter Epilogue
The Symptoms

DOUGLAS COLE
Boethius Said
Lashed to the Mast
Cold Rain on Montparnasse

JOE COTTONWOOD
Shelter in Place: Essential Service

ROBERT COWAN
Morning Convictions (with video)
Replacement for Words

MELINDA LUISA DE JESÚS
Pandemic Poetry

SIMEON DUMDUM, JR.
Love Makes the World Go Round
What is Beautiful Cannot Be Left Behind
The Heart is a Lonely Mountain

MELISSA ELEFTHERION
postcard poem
wilderness voice
Asphalt

HOLLIE HARDY
Staying Home

LEE HERRICK
The Birds Outside My Window Sing During a Pandemic

GEORGETTE HOWINGTON
Not Bad as War
California Poppies

LUISA A. IGLORIA
Mother: Three Pictures
On Keeping
First Night: In Mother’s House
Open House

LUKE JOHNSON
Malakai
Finch
Jeremiah

PERSIS KARIM
Anthem (with audio)
Devote Yourself
Sanctuary

MARY KASIMOR
threatens machinery on the prairie

PHYLLIS KLEIN
Coronavirus at Seventy with Preexisting Conditions

ABIGAIL LICAD
Shelter-in-Place Hookup Pantoum

AURELIA LORCA
Then and Now

ANDREW MCFADYEN-KETCHUM
A Trio of Crows
Another World
Whooping Crane

JOSEPH G. MENDOZA
The Weekend
Etherea

RASHAAN ALEXIS MENESES
The Distance of Now

ABIGAIL MILNE
sixteen / quarantine (with video)

CLAUDIA MONPERE
The Time You Are Required to Shelter
Everything is a Petri Dish

DIANE LEE MOOMEY
Next-Door

PC MUÑOZ
shelter (with audio)

TAYVE NEESE
Quarantine #4
Without rod or staff in the age of satellites and viruses

CYNTHIA J. PATTON
Birds at Night

LISA MELTZER PENN
Clouds Over Syracuse

CLAUDIO POZZANI
Tu sei / Missing You: Meadow, Beach and Highway

OCTAVIO QUINTANILLA
Parents
Love of My Life
A Man and His Dogs

JACKI RIGONI
On Social Distancing (with video)

RON RIEKKI
my first response,
shelter flarf
Anyone

TONY ROBLES
6 feet
Quarantine
Isolated

LISA ROSENBERG
Re-thinking Art as Shelter
Offering
Crane (with audio)

CHRISTOPHER X. SHADE
WHILE YOU REST, I take a turn on the red bike
THE STICK FIGURE

MURZBAN F. SHROFF
Beyond Belief
Windows to a Storm

KIM SHUCK
Quarantine Poem 1
Quarantine Poem 2

MICHAEL SIMMS
Hammer
Hands
Love
Going Deaf

NORMA SMITH
The Sun Comes Up
Early Spring in the East Bay Hills, 2020

EILEEN R. TABIOS
Spaghetti
They Purr, and They Watch
Pelmeni Tanka

GABRIELE TINTI
Icarus (with video)

JOEL VEGA
From Makassar
Canticle 7
Interiors

MAW SHEIN WIN
Quiver, fern
Huts
Portal

ROSEMARY YBARRA-GARCIA
Sheltering on the Coast

JAMIE ZOU
Untitled

CYBELE ZUFOLO
Incongruency