Reset birds dot the horizon, choking on pieces of themselves in these spaces where she prefers paint: small, dark marks how echos precede them, translate them before any origin how dinosaurs walked sharp angles wet their lips on surfaces of buildings it is simplicity itself slow steps upon heavy steps one after the other after the ground gives way you are on the cusp of a question at its edge on the tip of your — so slips so quickly so degrade the code the solution we spoke of it when we spoke only yesterday we spoke only two years ago yesterday this is how everything does not change do you see how we are fed on electricity? i am talking about leeches and i am talking about blood i am talking [about a direction in which information passes 'downhill'] what we made ourselves out to be: skin bones hands fingers dips and swells curves and arches postdiluvian topology pious machine counting counting counting methods already expended bars of soap cans of soda all consumed Sixteen ways, life is sectioned Fractioned, folded over, peeled Apart: turning and splitting Bottled light innocent as an earthquake