Pandemic, meaning all people.
                  Pandemonium, meaning
                      all demon. Pandora
                       meaning all-gifted.
                        Pan, meaning god
                      of nature. All people 
                     have meaning, are all-
                   demon, all gifted. It is in
                 our divine nature. We now
        appreciate that Pandora’s box was a jar
    left ajar, a pithos (to tell the mistranslation,
 then, is to risk being remembered by its fiction),
meaning a storage container for grain, oil, wheat
& even the dead. We all need places to lay down
  our grief. Where else to put it. That vessel held
      all plague, all pain & all hope. Don’t panic.
     Instead, turn to a companion. What are we
          if not the curiosity to open the coffins
                   we carry, who are we if not
                   all the things we let loose.