Posted by Atticus on September 10, 2004, at 20:25:18
Soft Footfalls Approaching Across Virtual Sands
Kinetic cybernetic sprite
With binary eyes,
Her irises and pupils
Built of digital DNA,
Double-helix spirals
Of chains
Of 1s and 0s,
Arrayed beneath
Chameleon skin
Shimmering on a
Liquid crystal screen,
Emotions
Made numbers
Made emotions once again,
Keystroke caresses
Traveling
Like fiber-optic fingers
Past
A million million
Electronic whispers
To reach through
A rippling silicon puddle
Pressed beneath glass
And touch
A cheek
That flesh
Cannot.An intimacy of icons,
Of hieroglyphic tides
Flowing
From the restless currents
Of one mind
To another,
Protean pools linked
By underground
Rivers rushing
Through
Passages
Where microchip mussels
Cluster
To nibble delicately
On quicksilver thoughts
Flashing past like
Glittering shoals
Of fish.And I await
Her nightly arrival,
A magical visitation
Marked by
A semiconductor
Susurration
Of gently breaking waves
Against
The pixel window
Where I listen
For the sound
Of soft footfalls
Approaching
Across virtual sands.
-- Atticus
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