mesmerized by TV

Jennifer Bishop “Televsion” 8/8/2018

An ordinary moment that might have passed unnoticed, this caught my eye for a constellation of reasons I could only name later: the boy’s body language of utter abandon, as though in worship to the altar of the TV…the way the TV glows bright and yet senseless (what is that image on the screen?)…the beacon of the screen and how the light spills over his face, owning it, even though all the while the curtains are drawn against the authentic daylight outside, which peeps through just enough to remind us of another reality held back, besides the one that has captured the boy.