Aurora 2022-Final

Julian Green

S. Boyle

Respite

From the “Closeness” series

We walked, arms linked, in the winter quiet breaking silence with laughter and crunching ice and snow. You stopped to watch the flakes, as they fell across the full moon Capturing beautiful things, you said.

I felt awe in your creative spin, on this treacherous time we found ourselves in – ten months, or four years, time like malleable clay in our perception, day after day. The sharp, cold air filled us with vitality that we had been missing With each breath – With each step – We found our way back to normalcy during the few moments when beauty walked alongside us. We counted 1-2-3-JUMP! in honor of our shared past on the street and I wanted to weep with joy and sorrow, both; blended in a tapestry of emotional ambivalence. Later we sang and danced, extending and stretching the moments to memorialize months later,

needing the memory of it again… and again. All while aching for time to move beyond the Pandemic clock’s minute hand.

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