The New Normal - Eva Tihanyi

This is one of three poems by my friend, Eva Tihanyi, published in the Pandemic Issue of Word City Literary Journal:

THE NEW NORMAL

We used to wish for adventure nights,

wild urban neon, rebel tales told

in vodka language, beer songs spilling

from summer windows.

Now we long for safe country sleep.

But still.

There is simmering

and fierce desire.

I’m in slow boil, 

my heart a rogue’s apothecary

of forbidden medicine.

Just wait, the hopeful voice says.

Wait for it.

Eva’s ninth poetry collection Circle Tour will be published by Inanna Publications in spring 2023.