Long Covid eyes

Long Covid Eyes


The waves roll in
fading on warm white sand
unseen like a blind dream.

He lies outside, waking 
eyes open, aching
distant waves crashing 
whimpering, breaking.

A blue sky, her kind face
the higgledy-piggledy
all-too-human race.

Vision ddoubled
life now in ppairs 
one pat: two ddogs
one croak: two ffrogs
two sseagulls overhead
white wwings touching.

Her face blurs 
her gaze lost in his blind eyes
a cloud of pain in an aching sky.


Published Four W Thirty-Three, New Writing, 2022.