April 2020 was a brief moment of fantasy and clarity for me in the unfolding hardships of the global pandemic. My home, my satellite, was at once shelter and maze, where I could lavish and languish in confrontations with a diminishing circuit. During this crystalline month, I was writing a poem a day with a dear group of bards. The Quarantine Daybook poems became my entries, my rhythm, my therapy, and I am happy now to have documented this period of looking out in wonder and horror through the lens of a domestic I’d never known.

I am pleased to share the publication of “Quarantine Daybook #6” in Sporklet 13 . Thank you to Guest Editor David Welch for including it. I hope you’ll read the full issue and discover work from Erin Adair-Hodges, Sara Afshar, Threa Almontaser, Jaswinder Bolina, Jen Frantz, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Luther Hughes, Evan Nicholls, Aaron Sanderberg, and Katie Jean Shinkle. Also, check out the cover art erasure poem and illustration from Avni Vyas.

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