Kuhn’s Nude, Duchamp’s Paradigm
Mark Young
There are
passages of time
that redefine the way
we see the world. No
one particular moment,
though somewhere within
must be a turning point.
Rather action / reaction,
in a frame by frame
process, an incremental
transition, much as in
that painting by Duchamp
where the nude descends
a staircase, step by step,
each step depicted,
each bringing with it
all the ones before.
Mark Young is the editor of the online review, Otoliths. He lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia and has been publishing poetry for more than fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized and his essays and poetry have been translated into a number of languages. He is the author of over thirty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction and art history. A new collection of poems, Bandicoot habitat, is out from gradient books of Finland.
