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Love in a Time of Pandemic

By Tamara Watson

winter 2020

(for S. and D.)


Lovers blow kisses

across

the expanse

of deserted streets,

compose love-letters

with sanitized fingers,

press

hands

against the skin

of lighted screens.

To escape

from the tyranny

of the invisible,

they dream

of living flesh,

like shipwrecked sailors

dream

of land.

In echoing rooms

they cry out,

demanding

to know

when

they can once more

frolic

in maskless joy.

In the answering silence,

they attend

to household chores,

perfecting

the exhaustion

that eventually

leads

to sleep.

Ms. Watson studied composition and voice at Juilliard and poetry at New York University and YM-YWHA. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Paris Review, Nimrod, The Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Moving Out (Wayne State University), and the Paterson Literary Review.


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