First Known When Lost: Charles Tomlinson On Cellphones: "The Self-sufficiency Of Trees"

First Known When Lost: Charles Tomlinson On Cellphones: "The Self-sufficiency Of Trees"
Excerpt:
All Aboard

All aboard and then

the entire train

breaks into phone fever and
intimacies of every kind
blossom into relations, revelations
as bosoms unburden themselves and stand
stark in that no-man's-land of tattle
confronting the traveller:

I must exchange my seat and get

into the phone-free hermitage where I

can contemplate the self-sufficiency of trees,

the passing landscape and the sky...