Tag Archives: technology

2025, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, sonnet

we are at war with the trees

data centers sprout like liberty gardens
we are at war with the trees
fiber optic roots stretch underground
a jungle of power lines overhead

we are at war with the trees
Congress is extending the hunting season
since we can’t trust the animals
and the subversive nature of fish

is well documented // fiber optic roots eat
into the subfloor of our most sacred monuments
but we have bought off the rats
and legions guard the tendrils tying us together

the jungle is all copper two and three phase
we are constructing equitorial power plants
big pharma is solving our addiction
to free-range oxygen // beware the fish

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2023, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape, Working Class Literature

no not the lack of sleep, but lingering old tech is to blame


the moon gets stuck on some antenna
delayed by not even a building that scrapes the sky
but a low-lying tall one
laid like a monopoly piece

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2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, the no-scape

no. 68 (revised)

It’s all a knot of patch cables —
memory. Nostalgia. That seed
bunker in Antarctica. An archive
built around a mole man
designed to encourage
the scourging of imagination
the exchange of wings for wires.

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