Sunday, December 21, 2014

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


Sunday, December 14, 2014

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