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