Coronavirus Triptych

by

John J. Dunphy

(Published in Issue 19 of Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems)

closed store

the Easter Bunny in its front window

masked

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nursing home

we talk to grandpa

through the sunporch’s glass wall

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graveside service

the minister’s eulogy

delivered through a mask

to mourners

who stand six-feet apart