Pacific Island of Guam
Wet Sonnet During the Pandemic
November 2020
sunday morning rain
our daughter peed the bed
i give her a bath
throw sheets & dirty clothes
in the washing machine
the strongest typhoon of the year
is approaching the philippines
her toes & fingers wrinkle
the spin cycle begins
lord please
don’t let us drown
in the second wave
of the virus
inundating our shores
Ars Apocalypsis
December 2020
every night
i write
a poem
about the end
of the world
yet
every morning
the world
revises
the end
of the poem
Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru writer from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Habitat Threshold (2020).
