Calisthenics, Week 2

Work I received from another student in class:
Eyes are troubling
mostly because they reflect the light you already see
and yet, there lies something
intangible behind them
direct contact is sometimes like
starring into the sun or the flash of a camera
instantly blinding but spot on
other times there is darkness hovering
a cumulus cloud hiding the light
how much is seen in another's eyes
when no one thinks
and sometimes a chiaroscuro mixture of others
and sometimes an undecipherable
chiaroscuro mixture steals away the soul.

Then passing through another student's hands:

Eyes trouble
the reflecting light,
lies intangible, direct
contact like starring
the sun, flash of a camera,
instantly blinding other
times darkness hovering
of others, chiaroscuro
steals the soul.

I have continued to work on this next phase of the draft:

The monuments of technology trouble the eyes.
They lie like the sun to uncover what we see
in the dark. They steal time
to remind us that history is contact
and today millions of fingers speak
without ever shaking hands.
No one touches bodies anymore.
Men gaze upon breast after breast
wanting each one while their wife
showers in the next room. Women watch
two women kiss and wonder
how her cheek would feel next to another's.
Millions of fingers hide while they stretch
to find what's beyond the hands, the arms,
the chest and grab the face that carries
the fingers. A monument to flesh builds,
eyes filter through a screen, we honor
advancement, to talk to millions
but to never touch those to whom our hands speak.