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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR
Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020
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Chad Norman Truro, Nova
Scotia Chad Norman lives beside the
high-tides of the Bay of Fundy, Truro, Nova Scotia.
He has given talks and
readings in Denmark, Sweden, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, America, and
across Canada. His poems appear in
publications around the world and have been translated into Danish,
Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Italian. His collections are Selected &
New Poems ( Mosaic Press), and Squall: Poems In The Voice Of Mary
Shelley, is now out from Guernica Editions. A FRIEND REQUEST FOR
PHILIPPE PETIT * A reason to reach out, I have
many. Among all that you shared
after the towers the one answer, " Why? There
is no why!" And me, then, saying, "How can
there be no why?" or even, "What! No why?" I
guess I will learn the answer by pressing a
button I use to share hope during
this duration caused by a virus with actual
intentions, keeping us from our dreams,
from our families, a button found among many
buttons set in some kind of order on
the keyboard now truly a daily immediate
lifeline. A need, if you will. Already
hung over our lives, connected to one side of the
virus and the other we can call beginning and
ending, a wire we kind of are all out
on holding our custom made
balancing poles, eyes on what each of us dare
look at being at so many different
heights, able to form smiles under our
masked faces. Philippe, I wonder if you will
accept my request? I promise I have no intention
to ask you why about the predictions, when
the virus will end. I just want a new friend, no
matter the bridge, no matter the cathedral, no
matter the artist, someone I, being out here
using my flat feet to understand each step will
be taken, made successfully, without doubt,
willing to wait for the others in front of me
who also dare walk the belief we can be one
with the wire. *Tightrope walker
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