Sonnet 247. Initial Lockdown Reading, by Andrew Barker. 

Sonnet 247. Initial Lockdown Reading.
I’ve always read my way into the world;
Whenever setting, characters or plot
Became too dull, oppressive or absurd,
The written past provided guiding light.
The Plague, by Camus, didn’t help. I’d hoped
To push connections through each page to thread
A Journal of the Plague Year, by Defoe,
Into a tapestry of, “Books I’ve Read,”
With other tomes that claim a lockdown scene,
Which touches on what’s happening today.
There’s less than one might think. In quarantine
So little gets produced! That’s comedy.

I hope! I fear a failure to connect.

I fear no book shows what we should expect.
Lockdown Sonnet Twenty-nine.
Andrew Barker.