We explore the poetics of moving with, across distance / forms of being together, despite conditions of separation and isolation/ paradoxes of protection and control / in Chile to wear a handkerchief over your mouth was made illegal in an attempt to prevent outbreaks of social resistance but now pańuelas are needed to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 / we are mapping such paradoxes/ we are experimenting with moving with when our borders are literally closed / we are measuring momentum pathways of toxicity and hope/ we sit together, on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, hanging out with our families and holding our futility close/ Alys pulls furniture over the door to make a little border for her daughters, to create an outbreath of quiet in the tidal roll of the day/ the same daughter whose first words that morning were “Mummy, is there anything in the world that is small to a germ?”