Beer night in Pandemia

Good to see friends at a table in the covered beer garden 
on a cool October evening as sky darkens early
from the smoke of not-so-distant wildfires. 

The acrid, burnt-forest ambience thickens 
and ash begins to decorate the smart device
that sits next to my pint of craft lager, 
telling us it's time to put on our masks 
and go home.

More raw verse.