Six feet from your bedroom doorway, her heart shaped lips and pert nose covered by a tiny homemade three-ply surgical face mask, she is sitting upright—wide-eyed, her red and yellow polka dot pajama clad body perfectly still—in her miniature white wicker rocking chair, before a forty-five-inch color television screen, dressed for bed and ready for each bright spiked orange pathogen to appear.
Bob Meszaros taught English at Hamden High School in Hamden, Connecticut, for thirty-two years. He retired from high school teaching in June of 1999. During the 70s and 80s his poems appeared in a number of literary journals, such as En Passant and Voices International. In the year 2000 he began teaching part time at Quinnipiac University, and he once again began to submit his work for publication. His poems have subsequently appeared in The Connecticut Review, Main Street Rag, Red Wheelbarrow, Tar River Poetry, Concho River Review, and other literary journals.