Books on Tape

Books on Tape


Cracking spine
and tilting sound
audio spilling word from page
and into ear
crawling down and in
through hole and membrane
when it touches
thought and reason
reason this
are we read
or are we read
with no form to see
and no form to function
taped to page
and taped to stream.


-Matthew Koutzun

Bright

Bright


The rain comes when it shines here
from hidden high up clouds
shooting down


Tapping on glossed glass it announces itself
calling, cajoling to illicit attention
to the day


Great warm wet from an empty sky
washing, renewing and holding
us refreshed


Skin cleaned
by heat dried
what wonder the above creates on me.


-Matthew Koutzun