{"id":24039,"date":"2021-01-05T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/blogging-elegantly-about-the-struggle-to-recover-from-the-coronavirus#id28743"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:42:00","slug":"to-find-yourself-in-a-landscape-unable-to-walk-or-walk-far-is-to-feel-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/to-find-yourself-in-a-landscape-unable-to-walk-or-walk-far-is-to-feel-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTo find yourself in a landscape, unable to walk\u2014or walk far\u2014is to feel exposed.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poet Alex Finlay has been blogging elegantly (“On Not Walking,” parts one<\/a> and two<\/a>) about his struggle to recover from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\n

Coronavirus has, once again, collapsed my cycle, scratching my lungs and tightening my heart. Six months in and there’s no easing, no medical explanation, and no official medication – only the remedies I find on chat rooms and pay for myself.<\/p>\n

Walks have diminished to walklets. My legs ache as if I’d run a half-marathon.<\/p>\n

I tried taking a walklet each day, to the lamppost over the road, then as far as the birch, 100 yards, and next day on to the pine, 103 yards. It hasn’t worked. The breath isn’t there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here's a related poem looking at the brighter side of things: W.S. Merwin's “To the New Year.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

so this is the sound of you
\nhere and now whether or not
\nanyone hears it this is
\nwhere we have come with our age
\nour knowledge such as it is
\nand our hopes such as they are
\ninvisible before us
\nuntouched and still possible<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Poet Alex Finlay has been blogging elegantly (“On Not Walking,” parts one<\/a> and two<\/a>) about his struggle to recover from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\n

Coronavirus has, once again, collapsed my cycle, scratching my lungs and tightening my heart. Six months in and there\u2019s no easing, no medical explanation, and no official medication \u2013 only the remedies I find on chat rooms and pay for myself.<\/p>\n

Walks have diminished to walklets. My legs ache as if I\u2019d run a half-marathon.<\/p>\n

I tried taking a walklet each day, to the lamppost over the road, then as far as the birch, 100 yards, and next day on to the pine, 103 yards. It hasn\u2019t worked. The breath isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a related poem looking at the brighter side of things: W.S. Merwin’s “To the New Year.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

so this is the sound of you
\nhere and now whether or not
\nanyone hears it this is
\nwhere we have come with our age
\nour knowledge such as it is
\nand our hopes such as they are
\ninvisible before us
\nuntouched and still possible<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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