THE HOLOPORNOGRAM
He invents the holopornogram.
Scanning his beloved with a laser,
he preserves his momentary pleasure
in a Kodak holophotogram.
Through customs, Boston, even the post office
carrying this wholly blameless surface,
he conveys her interference fringes
(furtively. Perhaps his conscience twinges.)
Alone, he views her image by projection,
cuts it apart to still-whole fragments, finally
snipping her down to nothing but convention,
his coherent Holopornophryne.
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Author:
Robert Southwick Richmond (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this poem in 1966, when lasers were new. A hologram is a photograph done with laser lighting, recording interference fringes. It has the property that even a small portion of it contains the entire image, in less detail.\r\n\r\nHolopornophryne: Phryne was the name of a beautiful Greek courtesan of yore.\r\n\r\nThis poem is a very close imitation of the style of Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914), a German comic poet vaguely like Lewis Carroll, in his cycle of poems about an imaginary man named Korf. Morganstern would have used Korf rather than he as the subject of his first sentence.
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Solid write Robert. Have a Happy New Year
Clever and creative. Thank you
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