Death Screens

Death screens laid out in visions

of moments alive from not-so-recent past

posted in emotive pensive recollections

tied together interpretations

terse or expansive but bounded

in a living breathing document

Fleeting as a moment’s breath

drawn in a chilling autumn morning

drawn closer immediacy beckoning

comments and concepts drawn

into the tapestry of a series of events

your eyes just can’t turn away from

Just leave this eulogy here

in a public record no one sees after

today without reminders

of the specks of lucent moisture

littered across the web in static

beacons giving rise to conscious states

Matt Mauldin
9/2017
Santa Barbara, CA