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Sunday, June 28, 2020

CORONAVIRUS PLANET

by Alejandro Escudé




The day is too
bright
to go out

and besides
the virus
is out there

hiding in little
political pockets
of air

according
to the media
it looks

like a red
spiky globule,

a planet,
if hell were a planet

orbit-less
in outer space.


Alejandro Escudé published his first full-length collection of poems My Earthbound Eye in September 2013. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis and teaches high school English. Originally from Argentina, Alejandro lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.