short text/ 2014/ artwork 2022

...of the given replicate/ simulate of/ bitten ash of the hardened artery of silence(d)/ drained dense/ given forth as if to have claimed it/ settled non-settled/ dust blown across a final mouth/ collectively of the want the lack of breath/ spurious to touch lights/ drain-dreamt of/ no traces but for the/ walls of sands and the ache of the in-step in a pool of congealed nothing/ carried forth/ as if to mock the lung/ the marrow’s else/ dreaming all the while of shadow/ exhale all done/ nothing no not a claim/ distances to inhale/ spoken of without clarity/ long night of the dead airs/ nocturnes/ for the absent