Fascinating – my perception has been that the whole pandemic has been too hard to write about, but I keep finding slips of poems, luckily dated, in sketchbooks or in my work reflective pages. The date is important though as it adds context and perhaps helps us to remember issues and emotions and responses at particular times
The weeks have rolled by
6 th week of lockdown
And there is still capacity in hospitals,
Thank goodness.
But deaths still rise,
Over 20, 000 yesterday
And those are the ones we know about.
People talking of lifting lockdown:
But how?
When?
And exactly how agile do we need to be
With our lives and our workforce
In case it all flared up again?
And how strong do we need to be
To manage Society’s potential dissolution
As the blame game begins.
Jo Hansen 