Zero Point: Am Here

By ALBERT CASUGA

Zero Point: Am HereAm here where nothing is everything,
where the stillpoint of our exploration
is exploring beginnings turned
into navel gazing. Where am I?

Am here where mornings crack
into a shiver of twilights breaking
into days and nights, songs and echoes –
whimpers of regret and frenzied halloing
achieved after couplings of living and dying,
of starting and ending, of suns and shadows.

Am in a circle at last
where the hole defines life’s next of kin.
I have come.

Am here where I am going.
Is anybody home?

Albert Casuga joined the Varsitarian in the 60s as a reporter and subsequently served as assistant news editor and assistant literary editor. At UST, he was the first editor of the JAS (Journal of Arts and Sciences) of the UST College Arts and Letters, and the editor of the Graduate School Journal. The poems above are from his upcoming book, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems (Selected Poems), to be published by the UST Publishing House.

2001-2002 Varsitarian artist Ronaldo Reyes currently works as a freelance book illustrator and special effects artist at Ignite Media, Inc., who worked on movies like “Angel,” “Quija,” and 2007 Metro Manila Film Festival Best Picture “Resiklo.”



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