168,845 cases, 18,706 deaths (71% confirmed) Dodging neighbors on Covid sidewalks like frogger Single file please Crossing guards still stand sentinel before empty schools. No shepherding. Meat plants are thought too essential to close despite mass covid outbreaks May Day: we demand better; (white) counter protests tote AR-15s Un-sick friend tested likely immune! She rumba’ed past purple lilacs We bike to Coney

4/27/20–153,204 cases, 16,673 deaths (69% confirmed) The scavenger hunt came down to who had the biggest pile of dirty laundry I emptied our hamper onto the floor and tried to stack all that is dirty tall But victory went to Scott’s tower of soiled socks and Pittsburgh tees in his 5th floor walkup in…

4/16/20–117,565 casos, 30,903 hospitalizados, 11,477 muertes (65% confirmados) Notas — uso la letra “x” para escribir de una forma neutra de género, por ejemplo, escribo “algunxs” cuando estoy refiriendo a un grupo de personas en vez de algunos/ algunas. …

Sunday 3/29/20–32,308 confirmed cases, 678 deaths in NYC Updated/ actualizado: 4/4/20 English below ESPAÑOL Desafortunadamente este blog está escrito solo en inglés, pero esta sección tiene algunos recursos recomendados en español. NYC — Recursos para inmigrantes hispanohablantes — Mixteca NYC — Red de Cooperativas de Trabajo de NYC (NYC NOWC) pagina…

3/21/20 – 5,683 confirmed cases in NYC The pear trees on 43rd st are blossoming with fat white buds. I can see them out of most of our windows, strung up with popcorn garlands. They follow on the heels of the purple crocuses already going by, the yellow forsythia by…

3/17/20–644 confirmed cases Our dog Pinto and I have the sidewalks to ourselves on our morning run- no swerving around immigrant families, kids in their Frozen and Mario backpacks, making their way to PS 169. No adults marching down the hill to the R train at 45th St in their…

Written on 3/14/20 — currently 183 cases in NYC On Monday, March 3rd we had our first case. Our 19-year-old foster son Ediberto had a very mild cold that we normally wouldn’t have thought much of, but we kept him home two days just to be on the safe side…

Al otro lado los muertos se lloran riendo, son cautivos de tu baile de falda roja. Estás en el paraíso donde la renta nunca hace falta y el agua nunca envenena. Eternidad de goce entre la virgen Madonna y la mora limpia Eres la nueva en el altar de muertos. Te servimos indio viejo y flor de caña para que nos vengas a visitar en tu traje folclórico, dando vueltas en la alfombra. El día que nos toca el puente naranjado,

Black Sneakers gliding magic across barre grey granite park slabs soles flashing red tongues he walks weightless as the moon pink symphony each night fluidity and Grace in a nets jersey, red palm popping, locking, slow motion black balanchine He & tree, one in single silent orchestra