Twenty-Twenty Retrospective

admndaretwrtWriters at Home and in Isolation

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Twenty-Twenty Retrospective

After Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will permit my memory to recall
something like the sounds of us in quiet,
the slow claps that break the silent evening
where before dog-fights and children had played.

I might demand that others recall
the ways in which our voices formed an outcry,
how in the lost spring restlessness festered
and emerged as grassroot revolution.

I admit I will be omitting
the long-darks and space betweens
and other clichés on isolation,

how so many saw it as a Hermetic exercise
where enlightenment could be found in a kitchen;
how many people thanked the pathogens’ vendetta.

 

Biography

Matthew Thorpe-Coles is an MA Creative Writing student studying poetry. His work looks at England’s national identity, masculinity and nature, and all their messy intersections.


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