scared of me, for crying
to the doctor If she comes down
I will feel panicked. I did not come down.
I stayed still for six days,
four of which I did not get out
of bed.
Through quick, blunt stanzas, 18-year-old Maya Siegel notes the initial wave of panic and tension that eased into her household as she was in quarantine.
“And she says, this thing that I absolutely adore, my mother starts to ration the seltzer water,” Zapruder notes. “Like this little detail that is so potent.”
Claire Hammond
I can hear the birds chirping all the time now. I never used to listen to the birds before; too busy running around from activity to activity. So many things have been taken out of my life and replaced. Yes, by worry and fear, but also by time, my silver lining. For the first time in such a long while, I’ve been able to just stop and sit. I’ve been able to focus on myself and heal a bit, in a world that’s so broken.
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