CONTENT NOTE
‘thank you for the photos’ makes mention of the COVID-19 pandemic and death.
thank you for the photos
of all your travel now that the new normal
has come to keep me down inside
my hollow well bottomless with vulnerability
the pictures of your excitement give me
pleasure nausea rage
exciting to throw off restraint
get back on those planes terrible
I agree that we were stopped
from our holidays
so glad
you are back
look at you
concerts drinking a motor on your arse
the road block is still up
when it comes to
driving here
wearing a mask for an hour
doing a RAT beforehand
it must be hard to laugh off constant
reinfection whisper herd immunity
like the password to a speakeasy
with me
us
the weekly dead
sat here like warts on pumpkins
ruining the normal
gastritis on the porch on Sunday morning
gather little beasts and weals
hear the birds see the moon cicada rocket from the ground
my stomach tells my skin outcry
better I live like an asteroid or comet
asserting my existence through electronic repetition
too-close-a-contact evinces fiery crash
on the porch I keep a guestbook for
the weekends the tense sad holidays
when I can’t travel to family
the hours
tin-canned in others’ air
these treasures
ones who touch the gate
share this house arrest