Tag: confessional poetry
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An app that eats up most of my screen time: A Digital Confession
A haunting exploration of our digital dependency, this contemporary long poem examines how an app that eats up most of our screen time becomes both sustenance and parasite in our modern lives. Through thirteen scrolls of poetic narrative, the speaker documents the transformation from casual user to digital addict, questioning whether we should feel bad…
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Slant (a Golden Shovel, after Dickinson — “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”)
A Golden Shovel built from Dickinson’s own line — eight lines of quiet grief and self-deception, where the mask of “I’m fine” cracks just once to admit how much someone is missed. Eight lies in service of one plain truth hiding in plain sight.