Love in Isolation

While a deadly stalking coronavirus

Silently crept thru springtime shadows

Preparing to grasp the breath from us,

Medically isolated in lonely boroughs,

For fourteen days she risked her life

Going store to store while social distancing

To find her husband's Beefsteak Rye

His favorite for sandwich making.

Greater love hath no woman than this
To hunt and gather in jungles of germs
Pushing wobbling carts through deadly mists
Until long-empty shelves were reaffirmed.