COVID Summer: Relic

[mrissa]

I asked for a library book
Before. In the before times.
It's here now, in my bag
For curbside pickup: ready
To tell me what I thought
I would want to know.
Before I checked the graphs
Every day, before I watched
The numbers climb. Before.
A fossil of past intent,
A message in a bottle
Sent from self to self
A little paper wormhole
Into the year that wasn't.

Comments

[kore]

Aww man, that's kinda heartbreaking.

[mrissa]

I have two more before-times library holds on my list, so.

[anne]

Oh goodness. Yep.

[cjsmith]

The Before Times. Yes.

[firecat]

Love this.

[mrissa]

Thank you!

[athenais]

I am feeling this. Very, very good.

[mrissa]

Thank you!