Ellie Black
Ellie Black is a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, where she also received her MFA. Her poetry can be found in or is forthcoming from Poet Lore, Afternoon Visitor, Mississippi Review, Poetry Online, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
Game Design
Living in a grass world no that’s wrong
Living in a pixel world consisting mostly
of grass Never mind it’s water
Rendering the water on the grass
so it fractures and gleams
as like unto a screen
A screen is mostly pixels
The water we call dew
It mostly glitters under light yellow and blue
like bits of glass So a light world
consisting mostly of glass? No
Well the light comes from the sun
which is a star but the dew is also
like little stars We have rendered
the night sky upside down into
the morning grass in miniature
Dew is almost as small as pixels
and if inspected through tears
under light refracts and bursts
Tears are mostly water
clear like glass and able to reflect light
but not the same as dew doesn’t have the same
effect Okay tear world
consisting mostly of tears
right? At least that’s one lens
you can view it all through