Year of plagues: a memoir of 2020

Out of this time

I do not want to alarm you

Is this what dying looks like?

Fred, do not be afraid

You are my mortal enemy

To fall, falling, and never land

Help me, Anansi

What Brer Rabbit did

Surely I'm to be saved

Hello, Miss Corona. Meet Mister Cancer

The maddening pain

The city is dying

I listen and hear more

I wake with his name on my tongue

As long as I draw breath

Juneteenth

My father's body.