where once were poems

Surrenders at last to the visual

— page 166, Context Collapse (A Poem Containing A History Of Poetry)
by Ryan Ruby

No single word is worth
a thousand images – just
decompressed data files
filling space between air;
where once were poems,
there


This is the final installment of poems inspired by Ryan Ruby’s poem-essay book, Context Collapse.

Peace (in the space where poems once were),
Kevin