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| Philadelphia. Credit WMMR drone. |
I do my due diligence
staying inside
I go for walks—
sometimes twice a day
I try to get 6000 steps
I try to make a day feel like a day
I have my tea
I try to find words
I try to reach out via the virtual
Sometimes I cover my bed in books
then fail to crack a single one
I tell myself today will be the day
I pick up a paint brush
I have so many problems
that are good problems to have
I go out shopping once a week now
I made it almost two weeks twice
but I felt like I was losing touch
Since we cannot touch
I tell myself other senses take primacy
Once I got in the car and took to the highway
to get to a good speed
Then I walked the main drag
in another ghost town
I miss the feeling of being in motion
Being in motion was helping me
in this era of grief
Mark Danowsky is a poet / writer from Philadelphia and author of the poetry collection As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press, 2018). He’s Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.