Architecture of Alternate Universe

“It is through architecture that mankind has relentlessly applied technologies to surpass themselves…thus attaining miraculous glories”
— Guo Pei

in it : stretched linen
over a Piña tree’s spine in it : woman

            with waistcoat of weasels & in the temple resin
trees dripping sweet saliva 
on a monkey’s outstretched
belly bloated with seed

and a child drawing the light as it streams through stained-glass
            saying : ahhhhh : ahhhhh
the light needling through her — lace
                        spiders drinking holy 
water from cupped 

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translation :
                        God is a place where women roam, feline
in their slink & flexible the ribcage  a shoulder 
bone the architecture of

slipping through silver thread scaffolding upon wire upon linen

if cloth a hard medium if : could build (empire)
if self-healing could stitch it shut (the way trees after injury —)

material : feather, silver thread, glass beads, and linen
resin resinrising —