COVID-19 POEMS by DONNA FLEISCHER

Meritage Press' Minitage Editions is pleased to release a miniature book-length poem featuring

from beyond my window: the Covid-19 Poems 

By Donna Fleischer 

(April 2020)
Size: 1-7/8" x 2.25"

The following is the book's interior text:

from beyond my window: the Covid-19 poems by Donna Fleischer

from beyond

my window the sun . . .

comes through

the wind

behind bird song –

quiet Spring

home, they say, is where

your heart is and i’m goin’ 

back there, somewhere, for good

with Big Mama . . .

stayin’ inside’s simpler now – she’s

takin’ it back home

Big Mama’s belting out

“let’s go get stoned” & “don’t go out

mess up your whole human race”

sterile mask images –

a white butterfly wafts through

the grey April air

noon day suns

foraging the bright yellow

dandelions

so many kinds of birds 

work feverishly this Spring day –

we remote in 

hunger –

waiting six feet

apart

so fast no time to

grieve so many dying to

bury our dead

ABOUT THE POET

Donna Fleischer writes in experimental free verse and Asian-derived forms of haiku, haibun, and tanka. Her fourth chapbook is < Periodic Earth > (Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press, Colorado, 2016). Her poems were awarded first prizes by the University of Hartford, the City of Nagoya, Japan, Kō, and Under the Bashō haiku foundation.

Her poems are in anthologies and journals worldwide, including Cornell University’s Mann Library, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, is/let, Kō, Modern Haiku, otata, Otoliths, Peace Is a Haiku Song, Poets for Living Waters, Spiral Orb, Stonewall’s Legacy, The End of the World Project, The Marsh Hawk Press Review, The #Occupy Wall Street Anthology, and Wang Ping’s Kinship of Rivers. 

Twinkle, Twinkle is a chaplet of 13 haiku from Longhouse Publishers and indra’s net is a selection of her early haibun (bottle rockets press, Wethersfield, CT, 2003). Well over forty of Donna’s haiku may be read online where they are archived at The Haiku Foundation and The Living Haiku Anthology.