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Shelving cold brains nightly metascience
pickled in jars
once removed in the symbolic
the archivist's wet cough lightless lungs
hacking against the back of his hand
a stagnant jury
halved walnuts lined shelved
in jars, order behind the city walls
but mountains are places unprocessed
Voyager in blank space
the flooded Kursk a black nuclear jar
dreams of Houdini's waterfilled crate
locked and other extracts
from an archivist's dreambook
eggs, snakes eighty-one poems
the duck-billed platypus.
The word for city
means wall in Chinese. Escape to nature
raw ancient shadows
playing on the cranium
classification of shadows monstrosities
in glass submarines
slick taxonomies, never finished
all unarchived elsewhere in the mountains.
He coughs, stacks another genius shelled
archives the spine
scripts of the perfect academy
never taking holiday
at the west gate unprocessed matter
in the in-tray metadreaming
of the out-tray, work never finished
taking an ox.