Baroque Medusa

Isolation

To some is foreign

Others frightening

Seeking solace through their smart phone

Addicted to what their state will issue next

Because being with their inner being

They can hear its voice

So loud in the solitude

It’s deafening

It wants to be heard

So it continues to speak loudly

In one run-on sentence

I want to fly

Run to the edge

Leap off the cliff

Plunge to the depths

Inhale the salty ion air

The opposite of the Phoenix

It wants to skim rock bottom

Anywhere other than mandated quarantine