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… Quarantine Spring 8 9 Paul Stephenson Wolvendael (valley of the wolves) All that spring the park was open but the benches strictly out of bounds. Dark green, they necklaced the park, staggered up along the gravel path. Cordoned off with police tape – blue-and-white strips in Vs and Ws. As if an incident. As if incidents. Each the scene of a recent fatality. People with dogs walked past them. Breathy joggers puffed past them. Like something had happened there. No stopping. Nothing to see. Moving on. … in the corner Of yet another Skype In need of a haircut Quarantine Spring 24 25 Anne-Sophie Oppor Groundhog Day My WiFi connection isn’t that great I say as I click on Zoom. Y’all start without me, I’ll just sit and wait and then I put it on mute. I check the weather as if it would matter, and put on my cowboy boots. Maybe next year I’ll be able to wear them, outside of this tiny room. It’s 3am so I should go to bed, Sike! I’m already there. I grab my 3-day-old banana bread, that I made in … keyboards in matt aluminium. I walk down my stairs and out of the door, checking that the coast is clear. Is it like this in war time? Every stranger a danger, every friend a foe? Hamstering loo paper, pasta, and flour; slogans on newspapers, shop fronts and bins: Haw pin! Haw pin. Don’t let them in. Oh for the touch of someone else’s skin. Quarantine Spring 42 43 Sally Wyatt Balcony Paul Stephenson Quatrains in quarantine (28 march-2 april) Listen, I’m different to how I was My belly's …