Stray teeth

On the wall teeth turn up in the wrong places. A chalk cliff has rounded white blocks lying at its foot, each beside a socket-shaped hollow in the rock above; a deep crack across a limestone plateau has jagged teeth along both edges; a serrated tooth the size of a boulder tips out of a green hillside; a split geode holds a double row of human molars among its purple crystals; a broken terracotta pot has small teeth along every broken edge; a rusted cog has soft white fur along every tooth. A halved onion has toothed steel blades where its rings should be, a fig is full of small pearly teeth, and a necklace is made of teeth still in their gums. A boot grips a mooring rope in its teeth, and a silk ribbon goes through the teeth of a saw without a mark on it. A white door comes up through a wet street on two roots, like a tooth (Odd doors).

In the eggs a crocodile’s teeth are a row of eggs, and one is hatching. The codex proposes that the teeth on the wall are one idea, places that have grown a mouth, and that nobody is looking after them. This entry is proposed by the codex, from pictures on the wall that are all machine-made, and is not canon until approved.