Near Things

In this short collection of poems, Mark uses cats to discuss the urgency of living, math to measure the possibility of happiness and atoms to prove that reincarnation happens. He mixes his own blend of voodoo science and pseudo philosophy to write a world where “the universe has no time to conspire against you” but “everything exists as an extension of yourself”—while thirsts are never fully quenched and “we never get close enough”, he offers a way to make the “the eventual absent present forever”. In this chapbook, everyone will die and will get rebirthed into another life form, but will first exhaust time wresting “meaning out of the dark” and living with the ache “to feel felt”.