Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Poem During the Plague: Poem 40

Chad Parenteau


Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus, released in 2013 by FootHills Publishing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tell-Tale Inklings, Queen Mob's Tea House, What Rough Beast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street, Molecule and Résonance. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. He has hosted the long-running Stone Soup Poetry series in Boston since 2004. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.



Week-Old Mask


Empires do
crumble, sure

sometimes
to dust.

Start-over
material

comes from
somewhere.

Towers make
comeback

leave us with
smaller streets

to stand in
legally.

Please give
to support

memorial
in progress.

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