100 Days of COVID-19, Day 31

My Art in the Time of a Pandemic

The Lure

Books and postcards created during quarantine in Baltimore, Maryland 4/30/2020

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed;
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so?
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay?
   All days are nights to see till I see thee,
   And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
           Shakespeare Sonnet 43

*Coronavirus Disease 2019:
Update in Maryland- 4/30/2020

21,742 confirmed cases 

1,140 deaths        

Update in New York State - 4/30/2020

304,372 confirmed cases 

23,587 deaths, including 18,069 in NYC  (Yesterday's NYC total was 18,076)

Total in United States: 1,069,424 confirmed cases, 62,996 deaths
Total Worldwide:       3,256,846 confirmed cases, 233,363 deaths

* All numbers are taken from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center