SHELTERING IN PLACE is a collection of poems and essays, most of which were written during the SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak of 2020 , a virus named COVID-19, that became an endemic, and then turned pandemic spawning several mutant relations, Delta, and Omicron, that proved to be more infectious, and as deadly, but mostly for those immunocompromised and unvaccinated. During the pandemic nations employed restrictions and lockdowns requiring populations to shelter in place.