Category: Poems

The difficulty of truly communicating

    Talkers Sometimes you send a message and it travels along as if passed to an intention-ed recipient by a code, Or it reaches a synapses in the transport system; sits stagnant in some back mail room, or stuck among a server’s bits and bytes. How difficult it seems to vocalize the sounds. Write, or […]

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Ghosts—-modern technology

Ghosts Modern technology allowsthe capturing of momentsfrom the outside in. Video& audio actions seized,then flattened in pixelsand .wav files: 1’s & 0’s. While posing uneasily for onequick pic, Mother stands in herwrinkled Muumuu promptlymuttering,“Oh, stow that damn camera.” Through diagonal TV images, you…Voyeur, perhaps even Gravedigger, nowreliving moments gone like lost breaths. You pause the […]

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Bumble Bee Hive

          Bumble Bee Hive Our adobe house in Lemitar with its two foot thick walls —a child could stand comfortably in the deep set windows— was home to a hive of bumble bees with their thick, velvety bodies and their slow motion calisthenics; I remember an old weathered saddle frame lay splayed in the attic—squat […]

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