Volume 26 - Number 3 - Spring 2020
Pages: 265 - 387

COVID-19 IS OUR CURRENT TEST OF ALTRUISM

Harris, J. (2020). Warm April morning during the pandemic [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 311-312.

https://doi.org/10.70763/1aa3d9c6ce672447e1e5d0f1b5207e85

Warm April Morning During the Pandemic

poem

Intro

In the city park, joggers circle
the path trying to keep
six feet apart, as the early blooms
exhale through masks of leaves

Keywords:

altruism, COVID-19, poetry, psychohistory, psychology

In the city park, joggers circle
the path trying to keep
six feet apart, as the early blooms
exhale through masks of leaves

and the crocuses open
regardless of death, regardless
of the dangers that lurk in the air
sending their roots down

into deeper arteries underneath
and one asks how this could happen
on a bright early morning
amid rumors of spring.

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About the author

Judith Harris

Judith Harris, PhD, is the author of three books of poetry and a critical book on psychoanalysis and literature, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times blog, and Slate. Her articles have appeared in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, Division/Review, The Chronicle, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, and The British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. She is at work on a new book, The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies, to be published by Routledge next year. She has taught at George Washington University, American University, and Catholic University. She can be contacted at jlha.gwu.edu.

How to cite this article

Harris, J. (2020). Warm April morning during the pandemic [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(3), 311-312.

https://doi.org/10.70763/1aa3d9c6ce672447e1e5d0f1b5207e85

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