In times of crisis, I wish my better self to rise to action, to solution, to do something.

Instead, I can’t stop sifting through news at a battering speed. I can’t stop scrolling facebook and feeling jittered with frustration.

And so it is with great relief I found the first poems of the pandemic:

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a machine of beautiful work.

Kelli Russell Agodon and Melissa Studdard are sharing daily poems on Instagram under #DailyWave.

“Our goal,” writes Kelli, “is to document through poems these uncertain times, and also to keep our minds off the #coronapocalypse.”

Write on! Uncertain times bring me to my knees, but also to pen, paper, and poems.

What’s going to get you through?