Thanksgiving-In-Place? Tanka Poem by Chen-ou Liu

One Hundred Forty-Second Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

more restrictions
for Thanksgiving holiday?
bare branches
tapping at the windows
of a nursing home

FYI: CTV News, Nov.24: "Thanksgiving could make or break U.S. coronavirus response."

In Pennsylvania, if you're having friends over to socialize, you're supposed to wear a mask -and so are your friends. That's the rule, but Barb Chestnut has no intention of following it.

"No one is going to tell me what I can or not do in my own home, " said Chestnut,60, of Shippensburg. "They do not pay my bills and they are not going to tell me what to do."