Lines, on the occasion of a vendor erring on a video call with the assembled faculty

The glasses are gone, like

the shirt and professional

pretense, for one ephemeral

flicker of the presenter’s avatar:

himself, bare-chested and sleek,

hard like the brick wall setting

off his sun-bronzed skin,

so I wonder, long after he

has hastily clicked away, who

this man is elsewhere,

beyond this Google Meet, beyond

this sales pitch for edu software,

beyond this dim and narrow

room: a man, who meets.