11-22-2023, 02:33 AM
To gather together
a museum of one's own
is to define oneself
for a little eternity
but also to bind oneself
to time and its theft
of all that’s left
of the too soon sacred,
the finally profane.
The Chevalier Quixote Jackson
a laryngologist for 75 years
collected from patients
items inhaled or swallowed:
nails, screws, buttons,
dentures, toys, padlocks,
rosaries, crucifixes, poker chips,
squirrel vertebrae
and a miniature trumpet.
2,374 objects in all.
a museum of one's own
is to define oneself
for a little eternity
but also to bind oneself
to time and its theft
of all that’s left
of the too soon sacred,
the finally profane.
The Chevalier Quixote Jackson
a laryngologist for 75 years
collected from patients
items inhaled or swallowed:
nails, screws, buttons,
dentures, toys, padlocks,
rosaries, crucifixes, poker chips,
squirrel vertebrae
and a miniature trumpet.
2,374 objects in all.