The Nature of Our Times

Quarantine

  • Nan Ottenritter

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  • Virginia

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In mom’s garden, bored
with nothing to do,
I craved possibility.

Quarantined today, I admire
the purple iris, a bird rejecting
thistle, downing suet.

Possibility flirts, hovers,
promises more. Patiently
I await its landing.

—

Nan Ottenritter has published chapbooks Eleanor, Speak (Finishing Line Press) and My Year 2023.  She co-edited Discovery, Recovery: A Journey with Veterans (2023) and has been published in Artemis, Still Points Quarterly, Poetry Society of Virginia Anthologies, Dissent: an anthology to end war and capitalism (2023), and Writing the Land: Virginia (NatureCulture LLC). After her career in higher education, she can be found writing, fiddling, and enjoying the vibrant writing community in Richmond, VA.

  • ©2022 Nan Ottenritter

The Nature of
Our Times

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