A Room of My Own: Variants of Concern Tanka

Two Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

variants of concern ...

I dip my immigrant life

in formalin

encase it in this room

of 20-square-meter freedom

Added: Two Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Entry

singing and dancing

around a covid gravesite ...

a circle of women 

with their faces covered 

in white powder

FYI: For decades voodoo has been portrayed in Western films as a black magic cult; however, it is an official and widely practiced religion in Haiti. For more, see Part I, Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided of PBS's four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America, produced and hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Added: Two Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Entry

awake alone

this face in the motel mirror ...

prolonged quarantine

FYI: Fourth wave "in full force" in Germany as WHO warns Europe is "back at epicentre," Sky News, Nov. 5