# Unsheltering
**by Annie Newcomer**

*An excerpt from my diary on July 3, 2020*

My husband bought me a motorcycle today.
He has the idea that we can pack our things
into tidy bundles, rev up motors,
already having found someone to love
and leave the pandemic behind,
as we outrace the upcoming Kansas City
hotspot of our present-day existence,
zooming off into a blazing saddles' prairie sunset.