Art: Rolling In by Marie McCloskey

READING IN THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY

Splash language into my eyes
like bathtub water. I feel,
I love digitized words
surging through
my Pacific wave vision.

Who has the time to spend
a sunloop piecemealing a Victorian novel
when I can receive Bronte’s impetus
within a nanosecond of absorption.

The judgement of Jane Eyre
corrals inside neurological sparks
before draining into a reject bin
at the back of Beth’s Barber Shop.

Her red and white pole spins,
an orbit of commerce
as a customer walks in
with a mohawk that needs managing.

A professor on the future,
he envisions reading
will go the way of the woolly mammoth
stomping through the past.


About the author:

Keith Mark Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in such publications as Eclectica Magazine, Five 2 One Magazine, and New Millennium Writings. After spending his days as a preschool teacher, Keith spends his nights writing poetry in San Francisco, California.

 

Art: Rolling In by Marie McCloskey

 

In the artist’s words:

Marie McCloskey found her world filled with color when she took a painting class in high school. Unable to recreate the Boss Ross style pictures that her teacher pushed, she developed her own style. Often tossing her paint brush to create images using foods and inanimate objects, she has created wild images with cookies, candies, bottles, and cans. Her work has been features by: The Friends in Action Charity Art Auction, The Old Orchard Art Gallery, The Soulard Art Gallery, The Starving Canvas, and Scifaikuest.

 

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