Eye Contact

Dawning recognition
after a blank stare?
 
A fleeting glance
followed by an avalanche
 
of flirting?
 
  * * *
 
Look at me. Look
at me.
 
Look at me.
 
  * * *
 
Make eye contact
with your audience
 
with your interviewer
with your bus driver
 
with your daemon 
with your enemy?
 
  * * *
 
Who are you looking at,
mate?
 
  * * *
 
“Among primates,
eye contact can be seen
as aggressive.”
 
  * * *
 
On buses and trains
we hide our eyes
in our phones.
 
  * * *
 
In matters
of confidence
 
the eyes
have it.
 
  * * *
 
You
I
 
I contact
You