Lurking: Wishing a Pandemic Away

Patsy Starke
Resistance Poetry
Published in
1 min readJun 11, 2020

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Take heed!
The menace lurks,
in the dark corners of denial.
Because we want it gone,
does not make it so.
When we close our eyes in the dark,
we are most vulnerable,
it’s still there,
lurking…

Patsy Starke, 6/10/2020

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Patsy Starke
Resistance Poetry

Registered Nurse, Transgender Woman In a lifelong transition, Parent, Grandparent, Normal every day run of the mill person, realizing my place here.