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  • March 25, 2020
  • 7:09 pm
  • New Orleans
if we were quarantined together/ i wouldn't be afraid to let you touch me/ you'd get clean and i'd cook you soup.
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Cypress Atlas

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if we were quarantined together

i wouldn’t be afraid to let you touch me

you’d get clean and i’d cook you soup.

we’d take baths and i’d listen

to your words, i’d hear them.

i long to hear you say my name.

i’d watch you sleeping, breathing.

oh, to hear your breath!

oh, to see your chest rise and fall!

sometimes i touch my own face,

unafraid of corona, and imagine

it’s your fearless skin on mine.

 


 

Cypress Atlas
Cypress Atlas is a performance artist, writer, musician, and theatre maker. She is a founding member of New Orleans based surrealist theatre collective, Corrijeune.  You can read more of her poetry on instagram @cypressatlaspoetry.

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4 Responses

  1. B says:
    03/30/2020 at 9:10 PM

    This is really sweet

    Reply
  2. Teever Handal says:
    04/04/2020 at 8:51 PM

    You so easily evoke the passion we deal in isolation, the intact that closes social distances

    Reply
  3. Teever Handal says:
    04/04/2020 at 8:53 PM

    Thank you. You so easily evoke the feeling of shared intimacy in isolation the quell the ache of larger social distancing.

    Reply
  4. K says:
    04/05/2020 at 8:59 PM

    i really love this piece

    Reply

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