POETRY

Just Another Day In The Pandemic

A poem about the noises outside

Photo by Clément Falize on Unsplash

The noise outside

Reminds

Me of a normal day in May.

The trucks back up at 5am to drop off their wares

Multiple multilingual voices shout in the street, out

And about

The birds that my cats watch, tease — and

Make their poopy nests in the eaves.

A honking car horn, after the fact

Sirens to the hospital across the street make my

Heart race, every time

A bike gear’s tiny clicks

Clanging displaces an unsteady, unidentified steel plate

On the torn asphalt street

Some damn thing beeping in the background

A radio blaring

The beat in time with the heat

The gush of air as the bus lowers itself to the ground

To let passengers off

Then the silent rush of rain

The way tires pick up slick droplets and lay them back down