Tease
There is more to life
than can be easily deciphered.
Hieroglyphs mulled over
in broken tongues.
Glimpses of revelation
grasped for fleeting moments,
only to shatter
as if never seen at all.
Goodbye to the Machine
The new night sky
speaks in algorithms
beyond the constellations
we had started to glean
a babbling of tongues
a wagging of fingers
a shaking of heads
a smirk from the system
Bionote
Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, live events, and books can be found. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Outlar was a recipient of the 2017 Setu Magazine Award for Excellence in the field of literature. Selections of his poetry have been translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Dutch, Italian, French, Persian, and Serbian. He has been a weekly contributor for the cultural newsletter Dissident Voice since 2014. His most recent book, Abstract Visions of Light, was released in 2018 through Alien Buddha Press. His show, Songs of Selah, airs weekly on 17Numa Radio.
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