VORTEXTS by Ben Mirov;)
Poetry | $10
Hand-bound. 32 pp, 8.5 x 5.5 in
Letterpress printed cover
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DIAGNOSIS
My condition is a condition
I do not wish to share.
My condition is a field of green
strawberries. Do you believe that?
Do you believe my condition
is a small ball of wax thinking
about literature? Barely a screwdriver
stuck in the grave. Affixing the vortext
to its page. Lost on the ether
of my own two feet. I go out
for little walks in the dark.
I never speak to the trees I pass.
It’s my way of romancing the ether.
Please consider this next time
you chart my progress. Please wheel
my gurney to the edge of the lake.
Lake is such a beautiful word.
I’d like to die with it inside me.
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;)
Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011) Ghost Machine, (Caketrian, 2010) and the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010).