All That Glorious Data

as the data lights up the telephone 
the data is in the telephone 
the data is 
the telephone 
it is 
data about telephones
it says telephone 
it says light 
and there is light

The World As a Map of the World

The particles at 6th & Jefferson perform 
The Merchant of Venice
for no one   without script 
without choreography 
without without or just without 
the 16-foot yellow Penske truck 
that rattles past 
has a logic of its own 
in the glove compartment 
the atlas highlighted yellow 
highway 278 west 
to interstate 55 north 
to see page 31   for Tennessee 
there’s a show at the Buccaneer Lounge 
tonight     there’s a storm brewing 
in the February sky 
the wind will take all spring to spin 
here the particles rearrange themselves 
tirelessly    the part of Antonio is played 
by Antonio         it has always been 
Antonio    it has always been 
a pound of bloodless flesh 
no more     no less

ERIC DELP

Eric Delp is a writer from St. Petersburg, FL. His poems have appeared in Soft Cartel, Roanoke Review, Lychee Rind, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, where he was Poetry Editor for Yalobusha Review.