Under a COVID Sun

KARYN SUGGS

April 26, 2020

acrylic on canvas

With ears intact, I purposefully glide 

Therapeutic wands across a stark plain. 

Wispy strokes of visions imagined through 

The weight of the perilous times we share.

Seething shades of sunflower pallets make

Crude portrayals of confining spaces.

Joy shines through the eminent doom as we,

Humanity, are lifted by a song.

KARYN SUGGS is a K-12 educator and graduate student working towards her PhD in Curriculum & Instruction at Texas Tech University, specializing in Language, Diversity, and Literacy.