Corona

                                                                       

Corona

Corona – a word once synonymous

With the afterglow of a cigar illuminated

Micro-volcanically in the subterranean

Evenings after crepuscule, all aglow

With smiles, and even chatter! Do you remember?

Yet now it is more immediately associated

With ravenous abstract halos, invisible

To the human eye, bearing the

Contemporary plague upon the winds;

The virus! Such is the phenomenology

Of the everyday, inserting a surreal element

To each passing event, so at every moment

Eros and Thanatos are borne upon the winds,

Caught up in the afterglow, all consuming.

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