Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Special Edition on Humour June 2024.
Remote, poem by Angela Stretch.
Remote
Fly, while you choose
this room to Zoom in
hot-wired, swift as a disease
visible enough to swipe
the buzz you reply with
suggests my timing extends
the time of your life
© Angela Stretch
Angela Stretch is a Sydney based poet, curator, writer and organiser from Otautahi, Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The artist uses language and poetry through different mediums and has been exhibited and published nationally, and internationally. She is the director of Poetry Sydney and intelligent animal. She produces Arts Friday on Eastside Radio and is an administrator at Arts Law Centre of Australia.