A product of reproduction number and serial time

the abruptly deserted discourse

(prodding the masqued crowd)

instead, armed with deviant protein

—that sneak—

high-intensity-lensed response lags behind
panic battering prodromes

the isolation of a planet

while batty coil—
(brings ground-glass opacities to exigent breath)

This poem was published as part of a series in a special issue, The Great Pause, of Press Pause Press.

Andy Oram
February 14, 2020