Sonnet: Six Feet

Six feet, like strangers, must we stand apart
Uncertain if that someone a spreader be
Of disease who untested could be me !
In bar or restaurant, at beach or park
The chance encounter happens in the dark
As voices meaning and contagion carry
Or buses on a strap or handle see
Corona home to your or my apart-
ment; Hi to selfies, bye the peopled pic
And woe to solitude amid the crowd
Where players of the social distance game
Would keep relations at arm's length and stick
To corners of a shot as none too proud
Now six feet doubled drops them out of f r a m
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April 2020

Sonnet: The Viral Bridge

The viral bridge of you-to-me transaction:
The music videos on internet
Restoke remembrance during this inaction
Of jazzy heat aglow off your sextet,
Where once we met and talked you sang, Deluxe
Club's closed and l'amour's interest shuttered down
And expectation of seeing you more bucks
The timeline reopening the town.
I click and watch you strut across a stage
Your resonating voice a youthful peal
Then later throaty blue as lover's sage
The various facets of your appeal.
Upon a time a man and woman met
Reality though cued a different set.


April 2020