'Quarantine feels like swinging in a hammock that makes me motion-sick, but I can’t stop the swinging. I know so many people are nauseous, resting in these confusing in-betweens.'
classes. My emotions were doing gymnastics in my stomach, but I packed up my things faster than expected and ate pizza from Grimaldi’s when I was done. When my alarm woke me up on Friday morning, I was surprised to remember that I was going to be in LaGuardia International airport in a few hours.
I broke the New York code of not talking to strangers to start a conversation with one of the women. We giggled about how absurd everything had become as she twisted the cap off of an industrial cleaning bottle and poured a third of it into the drain of one of the sink bowls. The purple cleaning agent swished around the sink bowl and turned lavender as it integrated into the bubbles left by previous women.
I looked at long, tall skyscrapers from my apartment’s window in New York, but now I stared at primitive skyscrapers: long pines and oaks that had dominated the skyline here for centuries. Ferns and wildflowers replaced concrete sidewalks, and birds replaced the taxi’s’ prompt communications. My family’s cabin hides here, in this forest that has the biodiversity to qualify as a temperate rainforest, and usually hits the rainfall requirement, too.
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