afar
by Peter Fullagar
from miles away i feel the unbearable burden
for your safety.
controlling
your movements from
infection, collecting
your coordinates
traversing from
room to room to
room.
confinement can never
be satisfying when
you are there, and i am
here.
phone calls that,
i open no longer with hello
but a question of symptoms
to which you respond
in the negative
and only then
can i rest
until tomorrow.
Image: Stuart Buck is a visual artist and award-winning poet living in North Wales. His art has been featured in several journals, as well as gracing the covers of several books. His third poetry collection, Portrait of a Man on Fire, is forthcoming from Rhythm & Bones Press in November 2020. He is the art editor for Konstellation Magazine and available for commissions all year round. He can be contacted via Twitter or E-Mail
Peter Fullagar is a writer and editor of several ELT publications, as well as Virginia Woolf in Richmond (Aurora Metro Books, 2018) and a short story in Tempest (Patrician Press, 2019). He is rediscovering his poetic nature along with developing short stories. He lives in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
