Becky Wills
the virus diaries #30
letter to grace
if it weren’t for you,
i’d never know
about the musk ox,
that it is one of
the longest surviving
creatures on earth,
and that over thousands
of years of evolution,
it has developed a method
for enduring winter
in the freezing tundra.
if it were not for you,
i would never know
that all the method is
is ‘hunker down and cope’,
that over thousands
of years of evolution,
that was the best
the musk oxen
came up with.
i know that what we are
experiencing is more than
just a seasonal rut,
but i can’t think of
better advice for us now.
if there is one thing
i do know, though,
it’s that this world
loves a come back
—Submitted on
Becky Wills is a member of the Poems While You Wait Collective. She has worked as an editorial intern for DiningOut Chicago. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins.
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