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indeterminate - a reading for For Bryn Corkery

Cloudy moments

drift indeterminate

search for substance

float upwards, collect as ether

condense on cerebral dust

into an essence of who we might be

or who others perceive us to be

gather heavy as cool rain drops

perhaps even freeze

and finally at the push of a button

fall to earth as precious images

stored in digital files

and then, at the click of a mouse change,

transform, fuse

overlap, clear-cut, darken, lighten

into something else, harder edged than vapour

A face, a hand, a foot, a location

A gesture, a smile

Interactions

Personal objects

objects of identity

signifiers of self

collections of images gravitate as

molecules around a nucleus of subjectivity

a pointer as to who we are

who we are suspected to be

until it breaks the frame into the wild flaming man

© Lloyd Godman