Chris Mason

Zeno - Zero

Dad

told us

paradox

arrow never

hits target

goes half

then

three-fourths

seven – eighths

of way - always

more fractions

to pass.

We

get old

we forget

things but never

forget all

forget

half

three-fourths

seven - eighths

not forget all

things forget

all things

not.

Zeno

we know scarce

info of life

of Dad’s life

we know

half

five-eighths

seven - ninths

always is more

story more

info

but

never

remember

all of arrow

paradox

told us

Dad

Chris Mason is the author most recently of Hum Who Hiccup and plays in the bands The Tinklers and Old Songs and Coo Coo Rockin Time. This poem and another selection of poems to be published on May 29 are from a book-length series called Where To From Out.