The Lovers

One is upstairs typing,
the other downstairs

reading, two lovers

separated by a single floor.
A simple sentence.

The closest they will get

is in that moment
when one stops the way

the other also stops,

exchanging places
with each other

without ever getting up—

Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse.

in Zócalo Public Square

photo by aless&ro