Connected
If this virus has shown us anything,
it is that we are all connected.
Our hug
Which I miss so very much
is resisted
so I don’t also hug
your mother,
sister,
brother,
child.
Your kitchen table,
which has supported our elbows
over long hours of
tea and talk
has to be
alien territory to me
for this while,
for the air
shared,
could pass
sickness
from my exhale
to your inhale,
to the places
where we both work.
And whilst I get paid,
even when I am sick,
that child
has parents who don’t,
who have no security,
no safety net
and so would fall straight through
to poverty and debt
from our
kitchen table chat.
It is not only that we ,
small bundles of longing and flesh,
are connected,
but
haven’t we seen
how supply chains
for that much needed PPE,
have woven silken nets
crossing borders
and bureauracy?
Aren’t we all wearing sweatshop masks
to keep us safe
whilst those who make them
cough and sweat?
And schools must stay open,
inspite of the data
on transmission rates
amongst hopeful teens
who,
robbed of newly felt freedoms
carry on
as far as possible,
oblivious.
for without schools
parents cannot work.
All those years
of degrees and debt
and we see clearly,
teachers are baby sitters
for the economy.
Even our grounded cars,
which hibernate
as we commute on foot,
to our lonely fridge,
are connected to the world in their rusting.
Their stasis
disconnects us from angry motorways,
allowing the skies to breathe
freed of fumes,
and suddenly we hear the birds
who no longer battle
against the roar.
This virus
skipped from
beast
to
human
to
the streets
to
the plane
to
the skies
to
the world.
Our tiny,
turning,
connected,
shared,
world.
When the caterpillar
cocoons,
it doesn’t just sprout wings,
it dissolves
into a soup
containing
imaginal discs
which reform,
weaving and growing in new ways
to emerge
into the fragile
spring sun
to fly
connecting to
petal,
scent,
breeze.
How will we emerge
from our dissolving?
Which connections will we let wither?
Which will we help thrive
so that all the world,
can
fly?
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Thanks for being here.
Julie
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