STAYING POSITIVE WHILE STARING AT THE BODY COUNT

Venting frustration

Failed attempts at normal

But normal, escaped, is now

Free-range

Arranged on social media

With intermittent WTFs

 

I’ve overheated

I’m angry

It’s Florida

 

Housework –

I’ve ironed clothes that wrinkle

Wishing life and virus could be

So smoothed

 

A Grocery run –

New hunting and gathering ritual

Homemade masks to protect

From the angry uncovered faces

Staring at my NY plates with disdain

As if my name were Wuhan

Rather than Hot Mess

 

With five-o’clock wine

I watch the sunset

Tossing its diamonds

Upon the waters of Newfound Channel

Week five:

Quarantined in paradise