Just received a copy of my bio and two poems (“Deux Cataracts”, “Default by Techno”) published in the 2023 Atunis Galaxy Anthology: Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, a Netherlands anthology.
DEUX CATARACTS
Vivid, I said
More widescreen
and maybe more colour.
But then I remembered
being under her knife twice
and seeing the same blue sky
peeking thru the white clouds
above me.
It was a possibility, no less
I’d often dreamed
but never realized
till that surgery table
and the strong steady beam
of God’s light overhead.
DEFAULT BY TECHNO
No bot could ever
replace a sky.
No phone will ever
stop the tides.
Nor any screen nullify
our limitless love.
No avatar could
supplant you
in any case.
Nor any cloud
clone Monet
nor any bug
hack Beethoven.
The variables in the
Internet of Things
are this restricted.
Touch-screens shall never
supercede skin,
mind and soul.
All the brave new whims
are merely greyscale
and deletable.
And a user-world is just that.
Egoic diminishments
in virtual domains.
Nothing else of note.