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Writer's picture: John ZedolikJohn Zedolik


Perhaps god of time is a misnomer

and god is time the correct alternative


since the former indicates removal

from the preposition’s object


where, in fact, is identity, an equation

that brooks no separation, no distance


between the two nouns, thus the only

necessity is one or the other


any sentence—subject and predicate— 

a tautology necessarily unneeded


 


John Zedolik is an adjunct English professor at Chatham University and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and has published poems in such journals as Abbey, The Bangalore Review (IND), Commonweal, FreeXpresSion (AUS), Orbis (UK), Paperplates (CAN), Poem, Poetry Salzburg Review (AUT), Third Wednesday, Transom, and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 2019, he published his first full-length collection, entitled Salient Points and Sharp Angles (CW Books), which is available through Amazon, and in 2021 he published another collection, When the Spirit Moves Me (Wipf & Stock), which consists of spiritually themed poems and is also available through Amazon. In 2023 he published his third collection, Mother Mourning (again, available on Amazon), and he has another forthcoming. John’s iPhone is his primary poetry notebook, and he hopes his use of technology to craft this ancient art remains fruitful.

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