iron oxide on cotton muslin

May 2021

Extract ore from the mountain to make a negative pile

then pile the gangue into a positive pit.

Refine, contain, displace whatever melts

in boxcars, squared sheets of it.

Use a 40,000-degree beam to sear shapes, excavate

the piece cut and the place cut from.

Encourage entropy. There is nothing wrong in wanting disintegration

memories of being an eroding mountain.

Soak, extract, permeate, seep.

Anticipate the contact stain.

Wait for evaporation to peel.