The cellphone keeps him on leash while he’s walking his dog Finn. Perhaps Siri will run a red light or spill his coffee as he drives to work. After long hours at the computer, microchip running shoes tell him how far and fast. Spheres of relentless data like one hundred cups of espresso in overdrive. Will the Goldberg Variations, The Tracks of My Tears and Come Together survive?
car radio blares
volume button not found
these hands are tied
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Laurie Wilcox-Meyer’s Circling Silence was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press. Of Wilderness and Flight was published in 2019 by FootHills Publishing. Conversation In The Key Of Blue, her latest collection, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing in 2020. Laurie Wilcox-Meyer lives in the French Broad River basin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she often spots bears while hiking and meditating about her next poem.
