alternate names for quarantine

Art by Angela Liu, staff artist

after Danez Smith & Franny Choi

1. one scooter’s length away

2. roof rain wild

3. boxes left to garage fumes

4. chorus of city-street sika deer

5. child until washed lighter

6. half-mast

7. gold-throated sailors in the west

8. cotton moons crack lamppost backs

9. plexiglas mouths

10. sun-soaked migrant washed ashore

11. Target melting under bomb-black sky

12. trail of candied daughters

13. ghosts, now

#poetry #quarantine