here is a thing
in that
we trotted along nicely
back then

when no one
said nothing

we thought no one read here
and that was ok and we came
huddled in and private

possibly our way and the circumstances
you know, the virus and now the war

then folk here said they read it
while we were astonished and
though it rattled us

find

we miss you if you do not visit
a while

and we get all our tenses and lines
wrong and have to go back in a hurry

to amend


and self conscious of too many

ands

you see