only bringing my heart
i bring that to everything
and it’s gonna be brilliant
she said to herself
it was, fact
actually better than
more like magic
inexplicable
in one breath
before pandemic
they met, where
the wild meet
before the feeding
frenzy
there’s a calm
an opened door
a wrong seat appropriated
A brush on the hand
that hand
the one
it moves across her body
so well now
like the moment
happened years ago
not weeks
previous to
the silence in the shops
the distancing in the streets
the closing of the country
and still
they are closer
than before it all
which was yesterday
she’s always said
until then
forever she’s said it
until then to him
and the other
and all of them
she knows better, silly
it doesn’t last
life is
brief
a breath in
a breath out
a chance
a small walk
to the river and back
then it’s over
until then is a fair
and a good thing to say
it’s always been
until now
when all she really wants
to say is
until the end