For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
{This came to me in a sing-song way, as I went about my mundane household chores, during this otherwise quite otherworldly moment in time. The Bubble Chart I refer to is the map put out by Johns Hopkins, which charts the course of the Coronavirus, as it has crept from East to West, flourishing, …
{I publish this on Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17th. This is a day celebrated throughout the US, with great festivities, parades, carousing, and toasting, by those descended from Irish immigrants, and also by those who just love to carouse. The holiday this year seems, by contrast, more somber. Parades have been cancelled, bars and …
{This fountain, viewed in the context of our own scary times, reminds me, as I suspect our fearless leader intended, of the Broad Street water pump. This pump, on what is now called Broadwick Street in London, was the source of the London Broad Street cholera epidemic of 1854 This outbreak took place during the …
Here is my first Coronavirus-inspired poem, written in early March 2020, before COVID had really hit our area, and all was wild imaginings and supposition. The picture reminds me of the almost garish red floral look of the virus, when seen under a microscope. That image has been splashed alongside every virus-related news item …
I first posted this poem in 2018, after watching a dramatic series about real bacteriologists in Germany, who fought to vanquish cholera through the scientific method, in 1888, and won the Nobel prize for it. There are many parallels to today’s situation and the race to find a vaccine for coronavirus, from the fierceness …
