Covidsomnia
Your heartbeat is loud in your lips
and you can't unthink about it
and it's pretty damn weird actually
then you discover no pulse in your wrist
is this another kind of death
or what
you so hot in the airconned heat
pinned and needled
your hands so cold
and your head goes existential
and pained
and the dark room explodes in stars
Jennifer A. McGowan’s latest pamphlet, Still Lives with Apocalypse, won the Prole Pamphlet Competition this year. She’s a professional calligrapher and illuminator, is disabled, and prefers the fifteenth century to the twenty-first.