Poetry published in A Plate of Pandemic
The Stoplight featured in Spring Issue: Creativity in Times of Crisis
Dear Readers:
I’m pleased to share that my poem “The Stoplight” was featured in A Plate of Pandemic Journal’s Spring Issue, themed Creativity in Times of Crisis. You can read the poem by clicking on any of the images above or on the underlined link above.
I welcome your comments and I thank you for your support, as always!
Suzanna
Thank you for this reflection of how life changes, even in a small town. I was driving around Cumming the other day looking at all of the new homes being built, noticing the life coming back in the older buildings and homes, and seeing many new buildings going up that are going to be home to the new businesses springing up on the outskirts of town. And I thought - “Oh crap, they are going to have to put a stoplight on Cumming Road”. Is that progress or life passing me by……….or both?!
Lots to unpack. Interesting tension between past, present and future. A rural town growing, unlike most. But into what? More of the same suburban blandness, our lives "known" by who our teams are (both sports and political)? We are bigger than that, but sometimes that's all we see or let be seen in a timid kind of shorthand. Is the stoplight a sterile, mechanical sign of "progress" when it is clearly a hindrance in your journey? What some see as blessings other see as curses. Nicely done! Thank you.