JACE BRITTAIN
Museum of Jurassic Technology
(2010/2023):
Gelatin Silver Print.
Listen .............. polymath-
o-matic, or otherwise, the bees
must be told, we can explain:
this is marriage, a rattling small
chain of keys, a tide which lifts
coffin & hive in unison, ---’s
funeral notice.
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Cabinet / Die Wunderkammern (2015)
Audio, reactions to
6 curios, on 4 telephones.
Among my curiosities
& a dead
bee’s bad werds
better than
an endwerld
’s stubbed toe’s
collection of
antediluvian bones,
there lies:
---’s clock which tells
what time it was when.
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Jubilee Catalogue (2002)
Ink, paper, bookboard,
bookcloth, glue.
feral for Reason i......
shattered for petri
dishes & lipping
the Crystal Clarity i......
deluded for Certified
Silver i......persistent as-
k & ask an attendant: What
am i meant to make of this?
Like Kircher’s Ars Magnesia
(1631) Frontispiece, drypoint.
Awful vastness, analog......
mask of urine, spittled palms,
---’s scarves we’d spoiled
in search of our secret knots.
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Horn of a stink ant (2015)
Lithograph, wax rampant.
An inhaled spore & the parasitic
antenna i’ve grown which now
leads my way,
& ---’s insistence: no inborne
path nor perception sign will
announce to the larva & yet
&tc &tc.
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Delani i (1936)
Bell mould, clay.
Sung note, wrung no—
pealed from
throat torn by
i sing, you cast
the voice
against time
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Jace Brittain is the author of Sorcererer (Schism) and a founding editor of Carrion Bloom Books. Their writing & translations have appeared in Annulet, Propagule, ANMLY, & others.