Ben Mirov

Cluster

1. It would be foolish to assume
2. that anything is composed of tiny dots.
3. That dots make up the universe.
4. That the universe is a kind of dot.
5. It would be disastrous to assume these dots
6. cohere by way of an invisible force
7. which extends from nowhere
8. into everything, everywhere.
9. When someone dies their soul
10. looks just like them and floats
11. above their gurney. If they were 30
12. years younger, they would tear the dress
13. off a nurse. It’s been this way
14. in every war ever fought. Souls
15. hovering over the battlefield.
16. Nurses completely dressed.
17. It’s impossible for a cube of light
18. to exist. Impossible for you to carry
19. that cube of light across a vast plane
20. of darkness through a forest of pines trees
21. to a house in the woods. It’s impossible
22. to enter the house and hand the cube
23. of light to William Butler Yeats.
24. Time flows up and down and around
25. the tiny dots. Birds fly out of the trees.
26. I don’t care for perfectly clear weather.
27. I keep myself busy all day.