MACHINE LEARNING
The heron skyline of construction cranes
preys on buildings being repurposed.
A flour mill becomes an office block
and a church develops new careers
while the message ripples through their shadows:
adapt and retrain, move, change and reboot/
what you were is no longer good enough/
swipe left/swipe right
zero/one
off/on
I am not a robot
stop
I am not
stop
I am
go
HOPETOUN
South coast, Western Australia
Memories rise from the floor of my mind
like mist on the estuary:
the five-hour journey nearly done
once the Barren mountains appeared;
beaches swept by great wings of silence
sharing a joke with nothingness;
the jetty a thin, curving finger
pointing the way to Antarctica;
each evening light in the town
a promise of what life would bring.
Published in New Word Order
S.C. Flynn 