Orlando White

Circle Shape

Trace a circle on top of another. Both are alike but do not mean the same thing.


Divide zero by zero: both are not something on either side of its given place.


Listen to the clock without numbers, the sound of something not written on.


Write the letter O; see the straight-line curve one end into the other.


Use the color_________to fill in the black dot at the end of a thought.


Without empty form there would be no given fixed point: the center of zero.


The letter L bends white on paper. But the letter O lends itself to be bent by space.


The outline of a zero should roll off the paper after it is written.


The center of black: blank shaped like a circle. Do not think outside of this.

Orlando White

"Circle Shape" is from Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009).

Posted on May 19, 2009 5:55 AM