Ben Mirov

Snowliloquy

1. I had a dream I was a satellite
2. and then I woke and I was
3. still a satellite. Signals shot through me
4. like birds in the dark. I was transmitting
5. something. Cubes of essence stolen
6. from the Moth Man. Snowflake after
7. snowflake like jellyfish drifting
8. through the void above a balcony in Brooklyn.
9. My friends in California, selling out
10. falling asleep, falling in love or out.
11. Loneliness is barely more
12. than nothingness. It’s Snowbody
13. touching your thigh in bed. Snowbody
14. chopping the peppers for the soup. Snowbody
15. calling your name from the control room
16. late one night. When Snowone is around
17. you think about them. Or you gauge
18. the rate of your disintegration. The exact
19. amount of detritus you’ll leave floating
20. through your friends. Maybe you fall
21. apart. Or you break off a shard
22. and send it to someone else.
23. A distant stranger taking off their mask.
24. No more transmissions for tonite.
25. Signed, Yours Truly, Ben Mirov.