Opposites Attract

JEANIE SANDERS

April 20, 2020

This virus repels and fascinates me,

appearing suddenly as a strange 

dark misshapen object in the corner,

threatening to spring at me

any moment, sweeping me away.

On the day John Kennedy was shot,

we were so horrified but kept

watching TV to get the details

as a young woman in a bloody suit

swept into our living rooms.

JEANIE SANDERS is a poet and collage artist.  Her poems have appeared in The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Express News, Texas Poetry Calendar, and several anthologies. Her most recent book is The Book of the Dead, Poems and Photographs, and she is poetry editor for the 2021 Texas Poetry Calendar.