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Collected Item: “The Home Within My Head: My Experience of COVID-19 In Prose”

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The Home Within My Head: My Experience of COVID-19 In Prose

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Poem

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I have always been acutely aware of how poetry connects people across places and time. Today, more so than ever before, humans are grasping for a connection as intimate as physicality without having to be in the same room. This poem speaks to that struggle. I hope it helps others out there, suffering from isolation, to feel a bond across the deep chasms COVID-19 has cultivated in our new world.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

isolation, fear, connection, growth, loneliness, death, self-actualization, love

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Isabel Turner

Give this story a date.

2020-12-07
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