“To My Unborn Child” — When Poetry Stares into the Abyss
8 min readMar 28, 2020
The tumultuous, rapidly descending, and wrenchingly emotional early months of 2020 have prompted me to meander back through my computer archives and hunt for the poems I’d written about a decade ago, that channeled a glimpse of just such an ominous future. I hadn’t set down to write these poems, and at the time, I wasn’t particularly drawn to dystopian fiction, speculative or sci-fi…
