by David Feela
It’s called a social networking phenomenon,
this desire to paste our faces
in cyberspace in the hope somebody finds us.
And here in the broader galaxy we plant
the ones we love in plots of earth
marked by numeric profiles
or we push them into the sun
hoping to disperse their energy
to the widest possible audience, praying
they’ll contact the webmaster
directly instead of being forced to point
and click for an eternity.
David Feela is a poet, free-lance writer, writing instructor, book collector, and thrift store pirate. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including the High Country News' "Writers on the Range," Mountain Gazette, and in the newspaper as a "Colorado Voice" for The Denver Post. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest and for The Four Corners Press. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the Southwest Poet Series. His first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas, is now available.
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