Close the Small Doors of the Heart via a Template of Hardened Wax

Mr Alarum has left the Library. Good for him, sad for me (though he returned books and music I had loaned him over the years including my four CD Supreme Dicks collection). Tom gives me the chewing out I deserve and the Kind I needed. Unrelated but thoroughly related, I wanted a quieter template, so shazam. I haven't link-fished in days, I owe you and will probably pay you back tomorrow but no promises.








STUDIES OF AN OX'S HEART, c 1511-13

Sylvia Legris

1

The long incision. The incipient voyage from aortic arch to thoracic inlet. Small-particled is the corpuscled city. (Bustling opuscula.) A city of animal electricity. A lowing cycling mass. Calm the cowed heart. Still the browbeating heart. Cool the controversial hearthstone. Let the blade intervene where the divine intersects bovinity.

2

Pour wax into the gate of an ox’s heart. Close the small doors of the heart via a template of hardened wax, a 
temple of vital gases, water with grass seed suspension, glass blown through a cast of calcined gypsum, plaster of Santo Spirito. Spiritous dissection, blood-sooty vapors, the dense dance of the Renaissance counts down a Galenic pulse. Musculo vivicare. Transit the venous. Bypass the 
arterial. Underscore the two-part cantus firmus in heat and motion.

(The fixed heart burns slow, spurns fervor.)