Issue 24
Spring 2021
meditations in an emergency
Edward Smallfield
1 red cabbage sauerkraut with ginger on a hot dog at a ballgame
2 only the imagination is real
3 a new anthem
4 the music of changes
5 round midnight
6 today at the hospital the masks
7 & the jacarandas
8 flowering &
9 la doctora ha enviado besos a ti
10 & the numbers more or less inside
11 acceptable
12 summer’s lease
13 extra innings. more time
About the Author
Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson), equinox, to whom it may concern, and five chapbooks, most recently, a journal of the plague year. Many thanks to rob mclennan of above/ground press for publishing that chapbook and for including “love poem” and all of the meditations in an emergency series.