Sheltering in Place by Julie LeonardSheltering in Place was written daily over the first year of the pandemic. I often work within a set structure, a form and a tempo for the making. This, to me, is artmaking as ritual. I wrote daily mesostics, a poetic form that uses one word as a vertical spine around which to build a poem. For Sheltering the spine words are the number of days into the pandemic each poem was written. This daily practice was a way to observe and record that first