Three Poems

from Telling of the Bees (Poems After the Museum of Jurassic Technology)

Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian (1990)

Sewing needle, human hair.

noncuration i (2024)

Mixed media.

.........chair tangle
mirrorblank
sewnneedle
dry point diamond tip
microscopicshards slides
dunbellmould
modest olive mount
dowelpiece
hathook
coathook
atticmold jar
paints uncanned
waxstainlift
summer felts
lithograph of
rustwept nails
banknote intaglio
hungdoorless hinges

Piercing Devil (2015) 

Blind emboss, unlocked lead type.

The narrow beam names
Massively incongruous
touch of meloncholy
meat, lead, nose leaves,
fore finger care, God
send thee with
echo-wave solids,
each shoulder:
a hare.

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Jace Brittain is the author of the novel Sorcererer (Schism). Their writing and translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from Annulet, Propagule, ANMLY, Grotto Journal, Puerto del Sol, Dream Pop Journal, and others. With the poet and book artist Rachel Zavecz, they run the small press Carrion Bloom Books.