A makeshift morgue, aged chrome and dusted stainless-steel shelves, abnormal and abstract instruments, question marks within the faded marble tile, a cruelly cold coal chamber for burning the swollen-elephantine bodies plagued with cloudy influenza and the red masque of bloated death. Black minnow buckets for the putrid fluid, pans of rancid rat poison, the watchful eyes in the cracks, crumbs of French bread, brittle pieces festering like wooden hearts infected by frost spiders. The Bubonic wing, the typhoid scripture and gospel of tuberculosis, the dying embers of Russian consumption, the cholera colored cold floors curled from the constant drizzle of early morning rain, a diseased novella on a windowsill.
Electrical sparks on the bruised horizon, a low purple abrasion bludgeoned with crimson arrows and the yellow jaundice scaffolds of war. Cinnamon lost eyes, a child's melted toy in the clay, the gutted hallways of a state hospital, psychiatric ward. The exposed frames, a waspish food plate badly bending from weather damage, a tarnished coin in a soft drink slot, the holes in the door and inside marrow, bitter rust and horrible fungus bleeding onto the floor. Icy chemical stalagmites, an artery of rolling carts and inky medicine, an asylum atop a rolling cobalt hill, a sleepy view of the crumbling communist statue through the fingertips of a broken window.
Busted globes of glass, abandoned staircases, a drowsy galaxy of waxen webs and silky strewn candy wrappers. The orange fibers of asbestos, the malformed insulation and remnants of a corroded metal patient bed, a haunted hospital howling with tortured wraiths, the little angels in malodorous burlap bags, small piles of blood-cloth in a rotten coffin box, the miniature skeletons scattered in casket-puzzles of bone and brine, strangely contorted silhouettes walking and whispering, the photos of Chinese smiles dancing wildly before rabid eyes, endless hallways and somber shadows, tattered veils of forgotten red curtains, the hollowed blackness among the falling and elegantly glowing diamond-like atomic dust.