The Divine Logic of COVID-19
I heard Toronto’s poet
laureate on
CBC’s q last night, reciting
his poem
“Thoughts in Time of Plague”
that
he wrote to ease the tension of
this
pernicious pandemic, and it came
to
me as he recited his poem how the
world always turns to poets
for solace
and comfort in times of need, like
this global crisis that’s thrown
our life
into disarray; and Al Moritz ended
his poem with a call to charity
with
the simple line, “The end was
care,”
which, to my own poetic
sensibilities,
was the divine logic of COVID-19,
the deadly virus that came to heal
the
soul of the world by setting
us apart
to unite us with each other, a
thought
much too deep for joy or tears.
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