Juha Virtanen

poems

oligarch authority underneath

going under chemical change

exerted on the bodies by the

agents to enact with within

history as much in shadows

as with substance the engine

outside was outlined by rot

taking the dog for a walk we came across a sheep’s spine

s t r e t c h e d o u t o n t h e g r a s s

we picked up the bone

and bent it until it broke in half

walking home from the cinema across evidence of a bottled victim’s blood on the boulevard leads to considerations of our bodies’ reservoirs for renewal e.g. the way a sudden loss of blood may instigate cell divisions to accelerate at an astounding rate to generate new cells to replenish all our reserves of blood before the body itself lulls its cells back to sleep THIS PROCESS IS EXHIBITED WITH

HAE|MAT|O|POI|E|SIS

BLOOD | TO

MAKE | BLOOD

TO | REC|ON|CILE

THOUGHT

WITH | MAT|TER

AND |TIME

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