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Suzanne Frischkorn

(NYT headline for Living in Redding, CT)

Where we hole up

to escape an invisible

enemy, the sky—

a blue someone has never

seen, & the air they’ve

never inhaled. The blue

of open space created

by many green minds

in kind. Only, this week

mud cakes their shoes.

At the market, in carts,

baskets, parking lot—

a wave of used disposable gloves.

about the writer

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Lit Windowpane, Girl on a Bridge, and five chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in Juked, Los Angeles Review, The Night Heron Barks, Pine Hills Review, SWWIM, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020), NPR's Poetry Moment podcast, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writer’s Center for her book Lit Windowpane, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She serves on the Terrain.org Editorial Board.