Electric moments

Inventing a new phone?

Park Ave Lobby Lamp with Telephone, Dan Witz

Here’s the beginning of Claribel Alegria’s 1988 poem “Summing Up,” a poem I read this week for the first time –

In the sixty-three years 
I have lived some instants 
are electric

I paused, reading that. “Instants are electric.” I know what that feels like, though after a moment I wondered if Alegria meant those …