Name: A Telephone Wire
Duration: P00H00M30S
Description: A poem about loneliness and rotary phones.

A Telephone Wire

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A poem about loneliness and rotary phones.

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The telephone wire
lays limp,
hanging
in one spot
for days.
No need to pick it up,
or move it at all,
if it isn't ringing.
Who would I call anyway?
There's nothing left to say
to anyone;
just recycled stories
that cannot be repeated
with any more detail
than the first time we told them.
Do I really need a phone now?
It's just another line
to dangle off of;
to clutch and wait
for nothing.

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from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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