Love in the Time of COVID – A Chronicle of a Pandemic
Description: Reihana Robinson is a writer, artist and organic farmer living on the Coromandel in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her writing has been published in the USA and New Zealand.
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I want you in the kitchen I want you peeling I want you darning I want you preening I want you giddy in the morning
I don’t proclaim innocence nor do I curse but I was handpicked so claim feral privilege
if I croon if I bare my fangs if I initiate preliminaries if I climb the hillside of wild horses and hidden tomo and broken apple boxes and topiaried cherry trees and spiky gooseberry bushes and half-cut potatoes plunged in behind the shovel …
Love in the Time of COVID – A Chronicle of a Pandemic