Air

Air

In the crowded room

at ten meters apart,

electrically,

we are separated

by a salty ocean

100,000 light years wide,

the diameter 

of the Milky Way's disk,

spiraling

with 200 billion stars.

However, if gazing across

an earthly ocean

we are separated

by not even an angstrom

of air,

and the particles

leap to touch

across the gaps of nothing.

-Robert L. Jackson III

Vision

Vision

Digital statues

gaze down 

at windows, 

but no landscapes 

lie beyond the glass 

covering reflective veins 

of pure silicon

falling into a grid 

without hierarchy 

and branching regeneration.

These contemporary visions 

evolved from crackling flames, 

to charcoal drawings, 

to indigo symbols, 

to electrical sounds, 

to pictures in light, 

to pure information.

Robert L. Jackson III