By Billy Antonio
Covid isolation
staring at a gecko
staring at me
Covid mornings
the repeated cockadoodledoo
of a rooster
Covid nights
a stray dog licks
its sores
a cough scatters
a flock of pigeons
Covid scare
fishes
in the aquarium
Covid lockdown
BILLY ANTONIO is a poet, writer, and public school teacher. He is the author of a mini-chapbook, “In a Country with Two Seasons” (Poems-For-All), an e-chapbook, “exposed wishes” (proletaria, Singapore), two poetry chapbooks, “Losing a Balloon: Haiku and Senryu” (Alien Buddha Press) and “where it was” (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York), and a short fiction collection, “Thread and Other Stories” (Alien Buddha Press). He lives in Laoac, Pangasinan, Philippines with his wife, Rowena, and his daughters, Felicity and Asiel Sophie.
Despite the serious nature of Covid, we need humour. This poem has it, I enjoyed it.
Germina Melius, thank you! I am glad you enjoyed reading my poem.
Billy