cut to W/S*
straight cut, straight-laced, big shot
suit laced with cologne
minus hazy horizons— not receding
but maintained by inflamed sinus
sterile dust lining vertical | | | |
horizontal shelves, sheaths of
skin filed like skyscrapers
Richter scale & vertigo—a disaster
contained by categorization
even when flipped on its head
the paper still stands, but the ceiling,
— varnished slats long black—
compresses the skull:
calcium ossified to paper
paper to embryonic sap.
*wide shot