Mikaela Castledine #198 Until We Don't

For the first time

in let’s say 16 days

there is a clocktick stillness in my house

everything is sitting where it has been put

The only movement

the butterfly effect of micro thermals

rising from my small electric heater

to briefly inflate the diaphragms

of all the washed sheets

of recently departed visitors

where they hang on the balcony rail

It's only breathing

we all do it until we don’t

and nothing remains unmoved