Oceans are blind.
Telephone lines are deaf and dumb.
At the bottom of the ocean
lies ten thousand miles of transoceanic cables.
Text message threads.
Voice message threads.
Compressed image binary data bundles
decompress on transoceanic screens.
My new niece’s baby face
appears on my phone in Albuquerque
all the way from Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
Apple of my eye.
copyright © 2021 Kenneth P. Gurney
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