The Covid 19 pandemic is isolating Alaskan writers. We can no longer attend workshops or public readings. The coffee bars where we met with other writers are closed. To bridge these physical gaps, 49 Writers is providing this on-line forum for Alaskans writing the distance. Today’s work is from Eric Gordon Johnson.
Snowshoe Hare
Last week white, now brown,
sitting still, making no movement
surviving yesternight’s yipping coyotes
down by the pond, where the moose
broke through the rotten ice.
Can you transmit tularemia?
Eric Gordon Johnson received an MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Arts (Poetry) from University of Alaska Anchorage this spring. He lives and writes in Anchorage.