The specular iron ore, England-approved
Denaturing into razors, shovels, bars
Lucent melting in the pyramidal forge
Fused in molten air, limestone stripped
No need for mining, the open seam
Of a surface median, you could approach
The blast by fueling the tuyere’s nozzle
Neutrality’s noxious torque, the furnace
Continuously burning, functional slag float,
Countercurrent exchanges that mimic
Flows in nature, flow arrangement’s terms
Retaining heat dispersed, historical fantasy
Repeatable form which shapes the past,
Each object cast into illusion, everyday
Domestic technology, function, bonds
Requiring tonnage of timber felled, first
The blades for axes, striking trunks, that
Torqued contortion of converting one
Into a mythic other of abstracted labor
What the stillness of potential strikes
In me: I take it up, for whom the bell,
Past sylphic feinting purposelessness
At the forged core of conducting power,
Oceanic death beyond ocean and death
Objects and order for my image made
Latticed wood planks nailed at forty-five degrees
X’s proximate to a small hill, yoked slope’s momentum
Carts which rolled the coal toward the charring mouth
Excess carbon burnoff in reduction heat alliance
That substance of unimaginable strength of bonded
Compounds fueled by bondage, extractions intertwined
That which is unspeakable, that vision of production
In the provisional zone the aim to kill all feeling for
One’s fellow man, yeomen’s fences falsely flagging
No structure thereover nailed without enslavement
No house, foundry, mill, or capital not a scourge
The tracks’ two steel lines extending mirror-like
Laid crossover tracks of depravity and deprivation
Look in it, look that you might lose your own face
The fetid scorching breath. Speak to it
Into the maw of cursed condition
Along every crumbling river road
Into each warehouse on its banks,
Honeywell, ferryboat, infrared, cinder
Optimum Technological Enterprise
The vestigial economy impervious
To fire, torching virtue, no one
Imagines hell past burning: the field
Of turnrows tracing networked crops
Enterprise, settlement, nullius merged
As Empire Workforce Solutions or
Infinite Commerce’s leveraged promise
Rome’s long-fingered settlement
Crude iron telos: bars, chains, links
Extractive corporate reposition stocks
Cast into abomination of a bond