POETRY
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Tiled Steps on Moraga Street - Mike Lambert
Shelter at Home
by Vivian Imperiale
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There must be other people like me
who are protected by the shelter-in-place order in a way others cannot understand An order that gives introverts permission to be who we are without being judged. People like me who enjoy quiet times at home doing something or doing nothing as long as we want whenever we want People whose world inside their walls is full Walls not limiting but instead containing thoughts and energy that wake anew each day. When society opens up again one day Those like me will lose our excuse for being us and people will again say, “What does she do all day?” |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vivian Imperiale has lived in San Francisco since 1957 but still takes pride that she retains a bit of a New York accent. When she was a little girl, unbeknownst to her, her father wrote down the original poems he overheard her reciting to her brother as they lay in bed. Ever since, she returns to poetry to help identify and process emotions to deal with life events. Vivian had two seemingly disparate career tracks with administrative functions at a real estate office and in rehabilitation for those with psychiatric disabilities; she quickly discovered that the skill sets necessary for each definitely overlapped.
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