(At 5:10 pm Saturday in Honolulu, Hawaii,
it is 5:10 am Sunday in Paris, France),
a twelve-hour parenthesis
conjoining
(this week’s last day
with last week’s first)
or vice-versa
(first day of this,
final day of previous,
depending on whether you stand
in Paris or Honolulu
facing east or facing west).
By all accounts, their Covid-19
is way worse than ours. But
that was yesterday.
Or earlier today.
Prompt: First Monday Writing Contest Prompt Ideas for October : )