Handheld super duper
computer, time-suck
of attention, attenuating
our pistoning thumbs,
pain radiating up to
elbow, still can’t stop,
Perpetually available,
sawed-off shot gun
blasted attention
spans spin out
of control, too
much know.
Celia Turner is a Loveland published poet in Northern Colorado Writers and Columbine Poets annual anthologies, Poetry Potion and winner of the 2020 Denver Women’s Press Club Unknown Writer’s Contest. She regularly studies poetry, takes workshops and classes.
The Grind online practice of a daily poem submitted to a random participating group each month has been a boon. Poetry for her is an ongoing intimate conversation she continues to have with those unmet but not unknown.