Communication Towers

PART I

We are attended by communication towers standing upright on high points all around us.  Some towers blink red lights.  Some reside in darkness.  All of them emit waves and pulses of energy that pass right through us and confirm who we are.

PART II

We stand at the edge of an unseen ocean.  Though we cannot feel them or hear them, waves break against us all day and all night.  But the machines around us sense and understand the ocean of waves.  Some of the machines dance when the waves wash over them.  Others sing.  Others begin to dance or walk away.

PART III

We are awash with signals and yet we have stopped talking with one another.

—Mitchell Hegman