Jenna Le | In the Spring of Coronavirus: A Haiku Sequence | Poets Resist

Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2017), a Second Place winner in the Elgin Awards. She was selected by Marilyn Nelson as winner of Poetry By The Sea’s inaugural sonnet competition and by Julie Kane as winner of Poetry By The Sea’s sonnet crown competition the following year. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and West Branch.

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Also by Jenna Le: Six Rivers A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora A Radiologist’s Ghazal

Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry: Women who Conjure Owls

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Edited by Sandra L. Faulkner
June 8, 2020

Jenna Le

In the Spring of Coronavirus: A Haiku Sequence

wind so strong walking to the pharmacy near ripped off my mask like a child bored in quarantine, wind bats crabapple blossoms about crabapple blossoms pink and wet like baby mouths too young to know fear a four-year-old, sick of Zoom classes, begs to run in the park again when my modem croaks, I wail as though it were a man who died coughing seven p.m. claps drown out my internet company’s hold music why do they applaud? is there a circus somewhere? then, realizing, I weep