Cafe Haiku is doing a series on haiku, haibun, tanka or related styles on the subject of the Wuhan virus lockdown which is now daily life for most of the world as the virus spreads to alarming proportions. A big thank you to all those who contributed to this effort by sending us your beautiful words and images. Subscribe to this blog to read the rest of the series and be updated about future series like this one.

The seventeenth poet in this Lockdown Poetry series is Sandra Martyres.

Stilted conversations

Ever since the lockdown, I only have my dog for company. It’s a good thing that he reacts to my voice- every ooh and aah draws a different toned bark or whimper.

This morning I am in a particularly foul mood – eleven days confined to the four walls of my home is getting me down. Ginger the dog…