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divorce cake

The train enters the tunnel, great piston breaches the oily cylinder, clockwork tide driven to foam on the rocks, and the marriage is over.

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Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing

A rat in the dark attic at midnight, bolt-cutter teeth incising insulation. Black wire, red wire. A spark. The pianist's hands stop playing.

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Walter Anderson

Wreckage washed ashore, fragments of fuselage and cowling, seat backs, oxygen masks, and hermit crabs remade themselves of metal and bone.

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Da Vinci

Under the hood where gear meshes integer, in the hamster wheel of the heart, a singularity appears, an homunculus, a social security number.

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Space Elevator

The elevator kept trembling: the mechanism out of key: but the riders held their eyes fixed on the dial, the reassuring arbitrary numbers.

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19th Century Automaton Dancer

The steel ratchet in the wind: she felt it against her corneas, pressing precisely into the metric eye sockets, turning, tightening.

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19th century pregnant doll

Inside the machine is another machine which refers to the machine enclosing it. So he touches her hand, and the image of a child emerges.

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illuminated ms, hat tip Bibliodyssey

That singular point on the continuum from which time reads like an inscribed transparency: just ahead, the hospital bed, the miraculous IV.

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Sassanid king Khosrau II (591-628 CE) mounted on his favorite charger, Shabdiz

Horses in a meadow over strata of loess and limestone, reflections limned through the meniscus of earth by fossilized skeletons of dolphins.

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Falling

In pinewoods at midnight the trapped weasel gnawing its own leg stops to consider its bitter self-taste.

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Dying, by then, seemed normal to her, a breath and another breath and nothing, a stone dropped in water continuing in water to be a stone.

Falling Through Time

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19th Century Engraving, Unattributed

They sat on the bridge rail drinking wine in starlight, watching for meteors to etch their glass-cutter lineage into what passed for future.

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Leonardo da Vinci

She pauses on the bridge and looks down. Something about the way water moves, about light. But the child pulls her skirt, crying time, time.

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Aminesh Ray

The old woman in the wheelchair watched raindrops inscribe the window. She read its poem to her blind friend, who mumbled protest: too fast.

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Larry Landolfi, Milky Way

At dawn the astronomer closed his dome. The morning star incised the horizon with a smell of lilies and a circle of blood on the eyepiece.

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Giles Penny http://bit.ly/Z9QOg?r=td

At dinner, he sat silent, staring at his plate while the others chatted--a ringing in his ears, a gray aura around the chop, sulfurous mist.