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  • Love in the Time of Coronavirus:Wherein We Realize This Is Not Temporary
  • Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (bio)

Thus the first thing that plague brought to our town was exile.

Albert Camus, "The Plague"

It was so lovely. We didn't even know itThe place we were let to live each day.Even if we knew it, we didn't show it.Expectation & regret got in the wayof our seeing that life for the giftit was. That was another country ago.The train has left, all our money with it,and we have arrived where we don't want to go.We want to return to our city of love.Our sweet celebrations all we think ofthese days of lockdown and lonely exile.They tell us it won't last. It's just for awhile.But we know better. The train's on the track.It only runs forward. We'll never get back. [End Page 151]

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell teaches English at Fordham University and is Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor (2020), 101 poems that channel the voice of Flannery O'Connor. The poem included here is from a forthcoming collection tentatively entitled Love Poems in the Time of Coronavirus. https://angelaalaimoodonnell.com/.

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