Issue 4 – 55 Words

On top of the overgrown milkweed, a single monarch
butterfly searches for a bloom, or nibbles on the leaf, or
perhaps deposits one egg.

January 2020 biopsy
What’s the verdict?

What if my grandma were still alive?

I sit in the back office seeing patients through a video camera, safe.

I imagine myself visiting a lab. While there, I probed into the psyche – if there ever was one – of a coronavirus.