Buffering
“Buffering,” a question of next steps and outcomes. Written February 9, poem 040 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo by SB Ducey; edited by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
Our country and its cultures,
we are Buffering.
We are caught between
loading our future
and letting go of the past.
We sit, stare and wait
willing the clarity to come
and yet the picture
is pixelated, scrambled.
We should know that
a half-ready video link
observed with impatient eyes
will never load.
We could stay
motionless
and watch the
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symbol spin
indefinitely.
Or, we could
push out of the chair
and find the path forward
ourselves.
The answer is out there
not in our screens.
