Letsgaze.com

by Ruby Porter

You send me a link but

it’s broken, your mouth is moving but

the image is silent, miming

yes I can hear

you to a webcam over and over,

I can’t hear you

still.

Words lost in electrical

circuits, voice thin in the air.

It’s like downloading a corrupted file

or walking outside on a February day

and not feeling

anything. It’s like being in someone else’s dream,

the way you sometimes struggle

to scream

when the knife nears. You

lean to close the window.

Leave it open.