Qual Inq
2021[Sep]; 27
(7
): 771-2
PMIDC7609254
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This autoethnographic poem tells of personal grief happening in a time of
lockdown. It draws on the concept of chronotope, a discrete time and space unit,
a parenthesis of sorts, which I have chosen to illustrate as a bubble. In our
daily speech, we see bubbles as related to both time and space, now with the
added meaning of close relationship of people, those who belong to the same COVID
bubble. In this autoethnographic piece, relationships are mediated by technology
which anchors our bubbles together, with multimodal links carrying affect and
emotion.