Eight Tanka sequences by Neelam, evocative and poignant, diaries abaout Coronavirus, exclusively for Different Truths.

#1
day earlier
we suspect nothing
by the streets
I suppose one might
sift whispers around us

#2
viral news
about Covid-19 stirs
the community
sting than of a poison ivy
everything a guess

#3
mask wearing
the God in temple
we take recluse
our prayers hymn
the wilderness of humanity

#4
keeping a distance
in a new colony
yet the sun
we would have shared
not obviously a virus

#5
reading woes
of a susceptible caretaker
we wonder
what is it like outside
being or being invisible

#6
enacting how to
sanitise your hands
a police officer
between paces this day
on no stranger side

#7
deluge of virus
the movement of workers
at city borders
will we grapple ever
with real life questions

#8
night lights
moths against a lamp
the path dwellers
sleeping with full stomach
for some days now

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