April 2020   Go ahead and long for 2019 all you want, you know it’s not coming back — we have to say that to ourselves. We’ve been   here before — when it rained, when the earth shook, when the gunfire was for real, when the green tide killed the sea, when the enemy took   our cities, when locusts came, when the black death was an everyday smell, when the books were burned, when everything went out of whack.     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont April 2020