Catherine Sloane

St Cezaire sur Siagne,  Alpes Maritimes, France

 

Catherine Sloane is an American living in France.  She has written poetry all her life and has been a long time member of Poetry Kit.     She has had poems published there and elsewhere.

 

 

The poem was written on 10^th April 2020.

 

A day in the life of Coronavirus

 

We get up.

 I ponder on the coronavirus

 We eat breakfast

 I check the news

 I ponder on the Coronavirus

 I do my puzzle online

 I go fix the bed, do my hair, face, get dressed 

 Maurice goes to get bread

 I ponder on the Coronavirus

 I go downstairs

 I walk Fluffy, about a kilometer

 I think about what’s for lunch

 I think again about what’s for lunch

 I think about what’s for lunch tomorrow

 I ponder on the Coronavirus

 I check our food stock

 I wish I could do some volunteer work but not possible

 I practice an hour

 I decide to coiffe Fluffy as her coiffeuse is closed for the duration

 I coiffe Fluffy……..not bad

 I think about my family and friends  and the Coronavirus

 I start to fix lunch

 We eat lunch, down some wine

 I take a siesta read my book,    Emile Zola

 I send whatsapp to family and hope Zizi and Gabriel are ok with baby

 I think of names for baby

 I go into the garden, pull some weeds

 I go down to the veggie garden as yet empty

 I have a terrible shock

 I see a black and white dead animal

 It’s Fluffy’s hair that I cut and tossed over the fence

 I look at the sky, no planes……

 I watch Affaire Conclue  on TV

 

 I feed Fluffy

 I ponder on the Coronavirus

 We walk Fluffy together  look for wild asparagus,  do about 3  kilometers

 We come home watch the news      Coronavirus

 We eat soup and salad

 I watch TopChef

 Maurice heads to bed

 I head to bed

 I read

 I fall asleep pondering on the Coronavirus

 The End