Our Own Devices

by Luce Pelletier and Michael Dylan Welch

First published in Skylark 6:1, Summer 2018, page 112. Verses originally written from May 2014 to October of 2015.

heavy traffic—

I am the voice

in your GPS Luce

my fitbit tells me

happy birthday Michael

music from the cloud

in his wireless headphones—

a walk in the park Luce

the street-corner preacher

points the way

with his tablet Michael

Voyager 2 still en route

with its golden LP Luce

power outage—

we find the candles

with a smartphone Michael