Isolation Sequence

Are you preparing
      to count the days?
Everything is more quiet.

On TV, we see the first
      drive-through tents
pitched in hospital parking lots.

Otherwise it is 
      spring or beginning 
to look like spring.

From the blood
      of the recovered, a serum
might be produced in two months.

Tulip magnolia,
      Bradford pear; first tight
whorls breaking out on branches.

Nothing looks terrible
      until it is. The moon,
however, is still bright 

for a beat-up skillet. 
      We swallow zinc.
When we can, we sit in the sun.