quarantine_spring_gedichtenbundel_fasos.pdf
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… for expression and communication. They explore the impact on education and work and speak of a yearning for touch, intimacy, movement and contact. For those of you interested in reading more poems written during the crisis you might be interested to visit the poems that have been archived by Manchester Metropolitan University as part of the ‘Write Where We Are Now’ project (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/write/). We are grateful to the FASoS Faculty Board for financially supporting the production of this … hugged each other a little bit longer, I should have told him that he makes me feel stronger. Regret sets in as I realize that could have been our last goodbye. I stop, and I think: Will our love survive this tragic time so far apart? We’ll connect online every day, trying hard to reassure the heart. If we both make it through unscathed, we’ll be together again next year, but we stop, and we think: Life will never be the same again, and neither will we. Quarantine Spring 30 31 Quarantine … 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 …