
Life in the Time of Corona
Coastal Intruder
Alice Oberhausen
Alice Oberhausen has been a restaurant manager and caterer, a contracting officer at NAS Pensacola, retiring in 2011, and maintains a consulting business mentoring small businesses. She is an artist whose work has been exhibited at Pensacola Museum of Art and Artel Gallery, and has begun to write poetry.
                            There is a new flower I see in my garden
                            I did not plant it but it is there spreading its tendrils
                           Among the others, silently tightening its grip Â
                           Without pardon.
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                           It chokes the aroma of my flowers from the air
                           It erases the taste of life from my heart.
                           This small new orb dominates and controls,
                           Handmaiden of Odin.
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                           Yet I shall prevail in destroying the invader
                           That seeks to be a new boarder in my world,
                           Confident that it shall not create a new order.
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                           The fight is on, a victory to be won
                           Although alone, I raise my hoe and strike the foe.
                           Lifting my voice to the Son who reigns over the enemy
                           I put an end to the tendency to doubt that life will prevail.