just like turning on light
a current that flows wire
vibrates resonating tones
and voices echoing ether
collect by probes in crystal
and tubes of vacuum and,
oh, microwave space be-
come vision, tele-vision
oh, those changes that so
change the way we do see
each other and our selves
self and others gone global
internet of things and heads
looking down at what they
hold in their hands player-
camera catching them all
in this gaze from way above
and so very far deep within
        ALL ONE THING

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.