They cut the whole world to fit
the dimensions of an eyeball,
a world shrunk, click by click,
to electronic sequence.
Tourists come home with packaged places,
palaces condensed into a few square inches,
the Taj Mahal squashed to postage stamp.
They journey through a world pictorial,
frame by frame reduced to souvenir.
At home, they organize their captives
into an evening’s entertainment.
SHRON Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes a poetry critique group and maintains a website of original music compositions (freeprintmusic.com) for donation to small, liberal churches. She is ancient but still creatively vital, a family matriarch and community activist. Her poetry collections include Remains, Seasons, Classifieds, and Ghosts, available via Amazon Books. Her poems are current in eMerge Magazine and Red Rose, Thorns.