Phone

 

Iso-mandala No. 273 (2021)

[Phone]

 

Lost my phone means

a day without my phone

no news to speak of

 

made to gaze at flowers

for hours now

I cannot take their pictures

 

left wondering what to do

true due to absence

of my concentration app

 

missing my friend the podcast

their confident voice

in any gender and mood

 

and almost didn’t get out

of the carpark alive

missing you satnav you jezebel

 

someone is trying to reach me

I’m trying to reach them

I could revert to postcards

 

maybe I left it in the cinema

or that supermarket shelf

I will have to cancel next week

 

perhaps my lifeline

is safe inside an inside coat pocket

hanging in the wardrobe

 

time is buried in there

and all my contacts

their names dancing on a pinhead

 

please phone me now

and we can celebrate the find

unless it’s on silent mode

 

let me this once

give you a picture with no pictures

a zen ringtone

 

I guess I’ll watch the weather

in the absence of a forecast

and make up my own in real time