Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse: April 20, 2025

Issue 155

Hello, Poets!

We recently came across an uplifting article by magazine writer Charley Locke in which she talks about how memorizing poems helped her through a challenging period several years ago and how poetry has continued to enhance and enrich her life—a perfect theme for National Poetry Month!

Locke writes that as panic about Covid began to take hold in early 2020, she found herself obsessed by the news as she endlessly scrolled through notifications on her phone:

Before 2020, certain aspects of poetry—how it often communicated mood rather than plot, how it required slowing down—frustrated me. In the shadow of the pandemic, though, those same qualities suited my anxious mind and fractured attention span.

By chance, Locke happened upon a poem by Paige Lewis, titled “When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows,” and she immediately fell in love with it.