For Now, We Have Been Spared

Written during thefirst three “Covid Years,” For Now, We Have Been Spared is a collectionof complex sequences and carefully constructed shorter poems that reflect theuncertainty of living through a pandemic—not only in terms of the immediatethreats to the body, but also the tectonic shifts in how we perceive the natureof existence itself. The opening sequence—asustained, metaphorical meditation on the devastation caused by the multipledeaths of a friend’s sons, sets a tone of elegiac reflection