The lake we drank was really a swan

turning into a sigh, and now we like

to spend our days taking turns

holding the eggs of each other’s

thoughts and wondering what to wear

when we’re sick of our feathers.

But who gets tired of wingspan

after being stirred and shaken

by a flock of storms, after we

have baptized each other

in rainwater—we study the wind,

incubate our nights.

Melissa Studdard's and Kelli Russell Agodon's collaborative poems have been published in Seattle Review of Books, Berfrois, Inspiration in Isolation, and Stanford University’s Life in Quarantine. As well, their collaboration was the focus of Catherine Lu’s Grammy-nominated PBS/NPR episode “Meet the Queens of Quarantine Poetry.”