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| "Pickled Flag" / Jack Daws (2001, U.S. flag, vinegar solution, jar) |
When systems dissuade themselves
Bodies coalesce and thrash about
Absorbed in energy of their opposites
Vengeance is confined to special effect
Revolutions to equilibrium
Devolving forward
Death unravels itself
In exquisite seduction
Dead hands reach backward
For the ellipsis
As carcasses collapse
Confused and convulsing
Caught flat-footed
On the crumbling
Foundation of things
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Pikthall is a writer and the Editor of Imperative Papers.
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Jack Daws is an artist from Washington state.
