Grainy black-and-white squares of
life framed in sometimes dated white;
glossy paper mosaic tile dioramas
snippets of life that have given way to
phone-shot, high resolution videos
that show all, tell virtually nothing
You can’t sift through a file full of
instant gratification videos,
you can’t scroll through a pile of
snapshots of folks in old clothes,
funny hair, tagging them for viewers
sieving through grainy black-and-white
squares clamped by thumb, forefinger
along the white border-frame, zooming
in and out by hand to gain better focus
I can see things a whole lot more clearly
Ponderable polemics, poetic 