From \u2018The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And their Muses)\u2019
\n\u201cToday you\u2019re a boy catching frogs in the marsh.\u201d<\/p>\n
today the headlines ring out with viral messages \u2013
\nnumbers and graphs crassly detailing data with
\nlittle regard for the human lives or losses
\nthey tally<\/p>\n
in a flash the world is thrust into isolation \u2013
\npeople trapped in their own homes where hearts
\nin windows and songs from balconies resonate
\naround the world<\/p>\n
perhaps it is a necessary evil \u2013
\na seal bobbed alongside me on my walk at the beach and
\nI opened my curtains to find deer lazily munching grass
\non my front lawn<\/p>\n
they say you can now see through the smog \u2013
\ncities shrouded in polluted clouds catch the sun\u2019s rays in every
\ndirection, finding hope for renewal as flowers open their petals
\nonto this new world<\/p>\n
you\u2019re at the cusp of it all \u2013
\nno longer just a boy catching frogs but releasing them back to
\nthe marsh, freeing everything in captivity and opening
\nyour doors to humanity <\/p>\n
to welcome them in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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