Vistas & Byways Review - Fall 2020
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​POETRY  -
  with a focus on the Pandemic

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Viral Nights
​by Angie Minkin

You give up at 2 am,
patrol the dark house,
gather totems:
feathers from Laura’s elderly peacock,
sea-battered rocks
the kids collected long ago,
the Tibetan bell, white sage.
You craft a shrine, an offrenda
to a god you don’t believe in,
mutter prayers in Yiddish, Spanish,
chants from your Buddhist phase.
Check on your neighbors:
so many lights in windows
that should be blissfully dark.
 
You sigh yourself to sleep,
not alone.​
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angie Minkin is a coauthor of Dreams and Blessings: Six Visionary Poets. A poetry editor and contributor at Vistas & Byways Review, her work also appears in Birdland Journal, Motherscope, New Verse News, and the Pangolin Review, and will be forthcoming in the anthology Fog and Light. Angie has attended numerous writing workshops and is a member of the Marin Poetry Center, the Bay Area Poets Coalition, and the Academy of American Poets. When not writing, she practices yoga, takes dance classes, and travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, whenever possible.
Other Works in this Issue: 
Poetry
Unfinished Notes on Aging
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  • Contents
    • In This Issue
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Neighborhoods
    • Inside OLLI
  • About Us
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Archive
    • Spring 2020
    • FALL 2019
    • SPRING 2019
    • Fall 2018
    • SPRING 2018
    • FALL 2017
    • FALL 2016
    • SPRING 2016
    • FALL 2015