Ambient Technology

Paperback, 156 pages

Published Sept. 22, 2018 by Metatron.

ISBN:: 978-1-988355-11-5

(1 review)

In this passionate sophomore collection of poetry, Ashley Obscura’s poetry explores the function of connection in a post-digital age and how one situates the self and creates meaning within the unions and chasms of our physical, virtual and spiritual selves. Ambient Technology occupies a space that bridges that gap between our visible and invisible worlds, between sentiment and emoji, between the opening and closing of heart matter. With great lust and desire, Obscura unearths something indestructible within ourselves, and lands amongst new tones of being and belonging in the sparkly lining of a too-real world.

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nicknicknicknick reviewed Ambient Technology by Ashley Obscura

Water has a way of finding the beach

3 stars

1) "Imagine a beam of light shooting out of my heart but instead of going into you it wanders into the center of the universe, which is you standing in the sparkly white grass inside my wilderness. We make our way together toward the incredible bright light. Light takes 1.255 seconds to get from the earth to the moon. We kiss for a long time."

2) "Your eyes are beds of moss And your tongue is a pine tree And my mouth is the sky Our bodies are gardens The golden gradient A tingling in my spine A stem A spiral"

3) "I've written nothing of substance of you I was too happy This is my consolation"

4) "You take the lightness out of me You put me back in the dark Like the way motion cuts the calm Smoke on the facets"

5) "People just want to hold Without …

1) "Imagine a beam of light shooting out of my heart but instead of going into you it wanders into the center of the universe, which is you standing in the sparkly white grass inside my wilderness. We make our way together toward the incredible bright light. Light takes 1.255 seconds to get from the earth to the moon. We kiss for a long time."

2) "Your eyes are beds of moss And your tongue is a pine tree And my mouth is the sky Our bodies are gardens The golden gradient A tingling in my spine A stem A spiral"

3) "I've written nothing of substance of you I was too happy This is my consolation"

4) "You take the lightness out of me You put me back in the dark Like the way motion cuts the calm Smoke on the facets"

5) "People just want to hold Without being held And vice versa"

6) "Water has a way of finding the beach"