Giving into
circumstance
we find ourselves
like chains we clasp
together hurrying this
language in our limbs our
lips our fragile nerves in pale
attempt to cross the expanse we
have failed here to define not sure
how much a question of such magnitude
would cast a shadow over this our tender moment
you pause and shift sculpting the silence like a tunnel
I count the line breaks as you breathe and let the question
weave into the nest we’ve made letting it go unanswered nothing is
between us but thin sheeted cotton it sits above the parts of us that touch like
tethered string but weighted down like leaning in might make the empty space lean back
Sarah Haufrect is a 2020 graduate of the MFA Writing program at
Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Her poems have
appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review, New Verse News and
Lucky Jefferson, among others. To visit Sarah’s website please click here.
Featured image: astro traveling by Daniel Saucedo