Coronavirus novel reigning liege
Obscures the memory of former ways
Amid forgetful fog that serves to ease
Dissociation in these present days,
Perspective shrinks to match the changed routine
Confined to area of a too small room
Dictated by some notion of quarantine
And tempered by ability to zoom.
Less burdened by the past we strain to see
Reworked reality as yet opaque
And suffer so of future anxiety
Like waiting on a said-to-come earthquake,
Each moment seizing every partial clue
We push to birth entire worlds anew.
