Joshua Keiter

How did we lose
the natural shape 
of the telephone

receiver to the ear
speaker to the mouth
the most intuitive

user interface ever
devised my child
takes one and knows

exactly how to hold
and communicate
imaginary conversations

and yet we relinquished
even the essential
as seen on Star Trek flip

to static flabs of screen
upon which we transmit
faces we still don’t know

how to hold just so
in our hands repetitive
stress screen fatigue

better to let the curve
nest in a cradle
we know how to answer

by saying hello