40. Obsess
Technology takes you to the treetops
My curiosity becomes binoculars
Your wanderlust glides like a gull
Each branch yearns for a foot’s affection
The mulberries crave you
Those sunbirds long to kiss your song
The future calls you to the top
Tomorrow’s technologies air their love
That ladder adores the adventure of legs ascending
The future’s fingertips touch your face
My fence envies everything there
Even the mulberries that moan your name
Anna Zgambo's most recent poems appear in Meetinghouse Magazine, Bluestem Magazine, Midway Journal, The Weganda Review, and elsewhere. She conducts poetry research at the University of Zambia for her PhD in literature. Anna is the poetry editor of Ubwali Literary Magazine. You can find her here.