GOD IS FAR FROM HOME
God is like day trading by
the water’s edge, snowblind.
God is like the crocodile
bird, retiring on a low income
far from home.
Maker, an enduring wilderness
damages; maker, one of us is lying.
Source & Method
There’s a website (http://libraryvoices.alanharnum.ca/) that monitors a live feed of anonymous library catalogue searches, running them through voice synthesis. I listen, select phrases from the feed, and assemble them into poems. All words/spelling preserved, but I may repunctuate; each poem is from one “listening session”.
Alan Harnum is a writer and software developer in Toronto, Canada. He has been previously published in Issue 5 of Unlost.
Photo by David Clarke