Zero Knowledge by Michael T Young

Views:
 
Category: Entertainment
     
 

Presentation Description

A selection from LIVING IN THE COUNTERPOINT, a new poetry chapbook by Michael T, Young from Finishing Line Press.

Comments

Presentation Transcript

PowerPoint Presentation: 

z ero knowledge a poem by Michael T. Young

PowerPoint Presentation: 

The rim of the coffee cup ...

PowerPoint Presentation: 

and the rim of my glasses ...

PowerPoint Presentation: 

c ircle spaces in which it’s nothing that I drink and nothing that I see you ...

PowerPoint Presentation: 

s till sleeping in your beautiful unconscious.

PowerPoint Presentation: 

A nd this is miraculous, since there was a time zero wasn’t a number, when this nothing had no shape.

PowerPoint Presentation: 

the clock hands slide down its elegant slopes, even But now,

PowerPoint Presentation: 

a visual echo, a shape that ticks away infinity,

PowerPoint Presentation: 

and the infinity of things:

PowerPoint Presentation: 

y our eyes, on nowhere, closed

PowerPoint Presentation: 

the cars outside wheeling down the road,

PowerPoint Presentation: 

the arc of the bridge, pigeons nesting i n the girders,

PowerPoint Presentation: 

and a cloudy day of raindrops...

PowerPoint Presentation: 

making concentric rings e xploding i n puddles that endlessly o pen. on the sidewalk, making concentric rings

PowerPoint Presentation: 

You’ve just enjoyed a selection from a new chapbook : Living in the Counterpoint by Michael T. Young Finishing Line Press ISBN 1-59924-870-0 Paper, $12 Release Date: Jan. 13 , 2012 Reserve Your Copy Today! Pre-order directly from the publisher: www.finishinglinepress.com