Virology

Diseases do not make
the science;
they themselves more
charged, spring-
loaded, like
particles

inseparable from blood,
from the bloody abscesses of
lives

which they suddenly
expunge,
in bedtime baths,

in violent red emerging
spattered on fleshy pink.

Rather, it is the more cerebral
instruments,
with the equipoise that tends
towards

some calculated shot
at joy.