I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
This is a love letter to my people, my family and a version of me trying to overcome the trauma of almost seeing their mother die.
This is a song for the Passover prophet as a critique on his inability during the Covid-19 pandemic to appear and provide solace and safety.
David Heineman·
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··2 min read"The Pandemic Nature Project is a 35-minute short autoethnographic film that traces a series of personal experiences, emotional reactions, and critical responses to COVID across a series of short vignettes."
"The following autoethnographic poetry represents the experience of being a casual academic negotiating the workspace."
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"
"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."
“Tired,” the titular poem and the collection at large, is an autoethnography looking at the cause of so much pain, so much fatigue. Anthropomorphizing the feeling of being tired gave me creative license to dramatize and explore the real experiences of needing a break...
