Zev Torres
During that Last Minute
During that last minute
When there are
No minutes left
And all that remains are seconds
A fleet of seconds
A flock of seconds
Unbound
No longer held together by a
Longer segment of time
No longer part of a
Temporal arc or of a
Larger destiny
Chaotic seconds
Each one existing only for itself
Which taken together would not
Total sixty
Ticking away
One after another
One by one
Scattering
Absorbed by forever
Until there remains
Only one –
Still
Sufficient time
Ample time
An abundance of time
To resist the inevitable
With brazen wonder
Zev Torres is a writer and spoken word performer whose work has appeared in numerous print and on-line publications including Mad Gleam Press’ POSTvote, The New Blue, The Remembered Arts, Lakeview International Journal of Arts and Literature, Literary Orphans, and Clackamas Literary Review. His poetry was also included in the spring 2016 Poetry Leaves exhibition in Waterford, Michigan. Since 2008 Zev has hosted Make Music New York’s annual Spoken Word Extravaganza, and in 2010 he founded the Skewered Syntax Poetry Crawls.
During that Last Minute
During that last minute
When there are
No minutes left
And all that remains are seconds
A fleet of seconds
A flock of seconds
Unbound
No longer held together by a
Longer segment of time
No longer part of a
Temporal arc or of a
Larger destiny
Chaotic seconds
Each one existing only for itself
Which taken together would not
Total sixty
Ticking away
One after another
One by one
Scattering
Absorbed by forever
Until there remains
Only one –
Still
Sufficient time
Ample time
An abundance of time
To resist the inevitable
With brazen wonder
Zev Torres is a writer and spoken word performer whose work has appeared in numerous print and on-line publications including Mad Gleam Press’ POSTvote, The New Blue, The Remembered Arts, Lakeview International Journal of Arts and Literature, Literary Orphans, and Clackamas Literary Review. His poetry was also included in the spring 2016 Poetry Leaves exhibition in Waterford, Michigan. Since 2008 Zev has hosted Make Music New York’s annual Spoken Word Extravaganza, and in 2010 he founded the Skewered Syntax Poetry Crawls.