Grief is a strange beast Arriving without warning Making your heart thunder As memories flood in Your heart overwhelmed Aching for what once was Part of you forever changed From the exit of a sacred soul Resist the urge to shut down Honor your dear lost one Love again
Alice M. Curley is a Boston area poet who studied playwriting and theatre at Boston University and now works at Harvard University for the Division of Continuing Education. She found herself driven to write about the experience of living during the COVID-19 pandemic, creating Poems of Pandemic Days. Her work has been published in Poetry in 13 Volume 3, The Loss Sessions, M., Anthology for a Friend, and has been featured on the sites Inspiration in Isolation and 100 Words of Solitude.