{"id":11305,"date":"2020-12-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherid.flywheelsites.com\/?p=11305"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:38:04","slug":"ctv-news-calgary-pandemic-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheridwilson.com\/2020\/12\/ctv-news-calgary-pandemic-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"CTV News Calgary: Pandemic Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Pandemic<\/figure>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\n\t\tCanadian poets try to put the COVID-19 pandemic into words\n\t<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sheri-D Wilson’s poem “Intoxicated Children” found in the anthology Pandemic Poems<\/em> is featured by CTV News Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn’t about the gloom or the lonely or the sad parts of the pandemic at all. It’s about kids – or as Wilson labels them, “bananarchists.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My poem for the anthology was a humorous one, about watching the kids next door go bananas after they were let out onto the street to play. It was a metaphor for what everyone has been going through, locked inside the house, and then the explosion of activity when they finally get that release[.]<\/p>

It’s called Intoxicated Children<\/em>.my neighbor’s entire front lawn
\n<\/em>is covered with little children far-gone
\n<\/em>strung-out on speed, guess they
\n<\/em>busted apart at the seams, freebased
\n<\/em>chocolate covered espresso beans,
\n<\/em>now spilling into my yard
\n<\/em>running and screaming
\n<\/em>like wound up wind-up machines
\n<\/em>unrestrained, straight off the pages
\n<\/em>of Dr. Seuss, thing one and thing two
\n<\/em>got them ripped on stir-crazy juice
\n<\/em>loop-to-loopy<\/em>they’re racing harem scarem
\n<\/em>raising hell in nonsensical patterns
\n<\/em>all over the front yard pell-mell,
\n<\/em>a CoVid kindergarten Mardi Gras
\n<\/em>breaching bylaw after bylaw<\/em><\/p>

~ Sheri-D Wilson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Visit CTV News Calgary<\/a> to view the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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