and caring oscillations
An online counselor sits bemused
by what is happening. Broadband
transmissions, electricity, pixels,
speakers vibrating add up
to therapeutic bonds.
Something weird is going on.
Electricity of brains and heartbeats
impact non-human digital
processes to facilitate
human interaction.
Cameras transmit electrons
to electroluminescent screens
and there is eye contact over
miles and miles and miles.
Electrical oscillations
vibrate speakers which move air
to the eardrums of the dyad,
optical and aural nerves stimulate
neurons in brains and somehow
joy, pain, hope, despair, humor
open and close circuits sequentially.
This is beyond mere counselor’s ken;
non-living media and human beings
merge with each other adding up to
weeping, catharsis, laughter, healing.
~ Wry Welwood,
31st of May, 2021
Thanks to Denise Larkin.
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