Perth poet Jim Mackintosh shared his initial reactions to being on coronavirus lockdown back in April, when he allowed the Perthshire Advertiser to publish 'Elements of Isolation', a selection of his recent poetry.No evidence of COVID-19 transmission in either positive test schoolsNow he brings his reality up to date with a new poem, titled Timetables, expressing the strangeness of getting masked up and boarding a public bus from Tulloch into the city centre again.
It reads...Late Summer sun, and it’s late.The familiar smell has never left me: At my back, the bus stop flexes, new daubs crackle the heated perspex demanding the rich pay for coronavirus.Their voices rose in nervous strands, after my last journey before lockdown, murmuring.
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