Zika
We are floating in constellations
Of disease: H1N1, West Nile, Avian, SARS
In the feces, the mucus, the
water
Swirling. Transubstantiating
On the tip of your tongue
Zika Virum volatus.
On the desk of the schoolhouse
Shopping on the handles of carts
Blowing in the highwinds
In the cabins of jets
From Greece to Rio to Port au
Prince
Zika Morbus morbi
Foremost it is distraction,
blurring focus
Cramps and vomiting
The birth of infants with
shrunken heads
Biting in the tropics, clinging
to window screens of heat
Unscented and bathed in resolve, the
virus Zika,
Zika, Vitae bonafidae ponderosa
Whispering buzzes in the night
Whisked from Olympic matches in
veins of athletes
Semper liberi Zika
Zika Captus unificare di humanus
Goddess Zika, culpa mosquito,
buzzing
Zzzzika of crania, seeker of
flesh
Pursuer of wombs, the birth
canal, culvert of tears
Zika, Zika, Flaviviridae flavivirus
Goddess of little skulls
Awash in amniotic fluid, swimming in semen
Multiplying on the puddles. Evolving on the proboscis
Zika Satana aliosque spiritu maligno
Zika Sri Lanka, Zika Mayanmar, Zika Florida
Zika Sri Lanka, Zika Mayanmar, Zika Florida
Zika Africa, Polynesia, America
Latina
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Zika,
in hora mortis nostrae
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