Joan Fishbein’s work has appeared in The New Verse News, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume One, Poetica, Helicon Nine, The Frequency Anthology, and The Origami Poems Project of Rhode Island. She has work forthcoming in a multi-author chapbook published by Main Street Rag. Joan lives in Providence with her husband.
The Complexity of Technology
By Joan Fishbein
on this refined canvas
maintain your own perspective
the views you see may be illusions
five senses don’t work as fixed assets
all the words in the world
can be written and rewritten
between ink and execution
blood and money
mistaken meanings
the notion of family
bones of contention
connections
we try to endure
What economy of language is so skillfully rendered here, but with maximum emotional impact.