Electric Literature

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Like others in search, I chased
rainbows, twinkles, fantasies.
Not brambles, not cathedrals,

nor hummingbirds. No time for
the bark of a sea lion,
the fragrance of fresh lemon.

I revisited Plato’s Allegory
of the Cave. Tried to impro...

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