Bridget Walsh
Haikus for January 2021
Dark shapes walk their dogs
through misty, frozen meadows
it's 2 degrees C.
Thirteen hundred deaths
from Covid winter lockdown
in twenty-four hours.
Granddads, grandmothers.
Our older generation
is being winnowed.
NHS workers
strain and put themselves at risk
to bend Covid's arc.
All hope rests on the vaccines.