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.