cANDLE SURGICAL (EXCERPT)

the cell recalls
a sunk disease

loiters on
the cusp,    a light

sensitive material.
culled images

singed against
the lid the reel

celluloid
inches in

& out a friction
back and

forth, frothing over
the weary

machine.

the heated
meat catches

cold—then
catches fire ;

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from Candle Surgical–published by Tilted House

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Cameron Lovejoy is a printer and poet who operates Tilted House in a house in New Orleans.