there we all are there's a lot more of us than you'd expect taking up a lot of space, standing about even apart from each other until slowly we start to wheel towards one another pulled together by the tiny variations in ourselves two collide and start to form a well another two somewhere else and again and an absent observer on a nearby absent hill sees the clusters start to form a few of us get caught on the edges pulled equally from each side eventually falling in or remaining utterly still, the forces boiling away inside them orbits start to form around the larger structures interlopers pass in wide arcs or are spat from one formation to another a disharmonic roil on the ground is seen as an odyssey from above choreographed and elaborate and inevitable and it's true we've done this a thousand times and it always looks like this