LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 29 March 2020 A terrible milestone yesterday: 10,000 Italians have died of the virus, 542 in 24 hours in Lombardia where it began its scourging of this most pleasant country. Nurses and doctors, exhausting themselves and dying…
ROGAN WOLF The River Severn is situated to the south west of Great Britain. Its length is 220 miles (354 km) and it is thus the longest river in the UK. Its source is in the Cambrian mountains of mid Wales and…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Monday, 23 March 2020 Today the Italian government issued a revised form of the auto-dichiarazione (self-declaration) we must all carry when we leave our homes. The new model requires additional details of the bearer’s identity and specific…
SYLVIE MARIE find me Poetry turns paper back into trees – Marie Lundquist find me i’m standing among the others feet planted in a corner knees together my woody trunk rising through my resin pelvis my backbone a stem for…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE My husband and I have been going about life under quarantine much as we would under normal circumstances. We spend part of each day outdoors, working in our gardens, preparing for spring and summer. We brought our…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 17 March I realized yesterday that going to the supermarket makes me feel anxious. Going indoors almost anywhere except home makes my heart beat faster, my breath go tight and shallow. So I decide I won’t go…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 16 March By now many of you will have seen online video of Italians singing on their balconies; playing violins, guitars, accordions, electric pianos; banging pans; anything to express their solidarity, defiance and hope and determination to…
