Plugged into clock time my heart a metronome my veins titanium my brain cloud-linked my feet careening on kindles I shout my schedule electric. Quantum leaping between paradise and obligation I hum white lightning a lost Tesla, mad with burnt offerings. Sharon Israel hosts the radio program, Poetry Hour at the Writer’s Voice, on WIOX FM, in Roxbury, New York. As a poet and soprano, Sharon collaborates with composer Robert Cucinotta on works for voice, live instruments and electronics and has premiered several of his works in New York. She was an early recipient of Brooklyn College's Leonard Hecht Poetry Explication Award, and her work most recently appeared in the winter issue of Per Contra. |