The Poetics of a Plague, A Haiku Diary

no pot holders, felthats, quilt rugs or sourdoughto show, and nogrand projects done, justthese humble haikus that tellthe tale of how welived through this virusits existential despaircounting off the days.During the pandemic, Melbourne became the most locked down city in the world, restricting five million people largely to the confines of their homes for months on end. Poet and mental health advocate Sandy Jeffs was one of them.This diary, written in haiku form, takes the reader through the dai