PROVINCES OF NEOCORTEX

saucers on the continental
moving a source of light across clicking sounds
at the concrete yards; an ape felt the bed and covers
and vented mechanical eyes and ears
that upwelling placed at location number 11
a dustbin of dead celestial strands will fall on the back
of their necks, no connection to times or places
her eggs on algae of artificial rocks
in the last minutes of life, or the day the courthouse burned
the curvature of their abyssal fish

a copy of the external world stretched between two poles
audiotapes of thin birch turning high above the clouds
with hundreds of tendon-like wives and children
encased in steel and glass magnitude at his disposal
a cooperative citizen
made from the shells of billions
sat on rocks of whitened limestone during the hunting season
never saw his cord to count the stripes
on a six-by-seven-foot cheesecloth in San Francisco.