Sometimes the stop and start uncertainty, The tactile tension, texture and cross-outs, Wine blots, smudges, and tangled doodles Are the only way to breath life into a verse. (Source: "Paper Poem", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) This latter chunk of a fleeting vignette on the analog/digital duality neither burnishes nor batters digital creativity. While less of a "divide" every day, there ...
Analog
Handmade Notes
If you receive a wrinkled Sheet with wine rings and Almost illegible green ink, Forgive cryptic penmanship, Carets and inline doodles. I wanted to share my words With you. And no one else. Smudges and all. (Source: "Handmade Notes", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) This is the last stanza of a tribute to handwritten communication in an era of digital everything. Yes, I wrote it on my iPhone. No, ...