There’s a certain Ring of light,
Zoom Call Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Animal Crossing Tunes –

Okay, so it’s not my best parody poem, but you can’t deny the effort.

Lilith is part of both an arts conservatory and a children’s chorus, and, like everything else, those programs went remote during the pandemic. As a result, Lilith has had to accumulate all manner of at-home recording equipment: mics, lights, tripods. Lilith was as good a sport about this as they could be, but I think ring lights will forever remind us of lockdown and the awkwardness of singing your heart out into a cell phone.

A spicy, blindingly white scent: radiant pale musk, artemisia, white lavender, neroli, white pepper, and zingy white aldehydes.