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.