From “Digamma: Interloquies in Quantum Poetics”, and: Grapefruit, and: Kerning, and: The Nothing Palette

This poem is an interplay of dream worlds and literary worlds. It uses a quotation about language and power from Susan Howe’s book, My Emily Dickinson, that also evokes Dickinson being “shut away” in her later life.

This poem is an interplay of dream worlds and literary worlds. It evokes Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit but in an oblique way, as the end of the poem suggests Stein’s chapter on “Food,” which refers to the poem’s title, a book by Ono.

This poem is an interplay of dream worlds and literary worlds. It evokes the kerning technique that N. H. Pritchard used where letters are spaced apart, and I imagine those spaces as ecological and traveling them.

This poem is an interplay of dream worlds and literary worlds. It evokes the time when Juan Felipe Herrera (former U.S. Poet Laureate) said to me that I should leave space in my poems for nothing; in this poem I imagine what that space is and how to navigate it.