Monday, June 13, 2016

a long poem i wrote last month


     Sonnets to Chango

This is a set of blank "sonnets" utilizing for endwords a word-row called the Arbatel, which is an ordered set of the "unrhymable words" (necessarily somewhat arbitrary) of English, rearranged via a magic square. Analogous to the tone-rows of serialist music, this sequence can be excerpted & also reversed, so long as the order of words remains. The god Chango was selected for address as appropriate to the climate exigencies of the Cthulhucene.

I.| II.| III.| IV.| V.| VI.| VII.| VIII.| IX.| X.| XI.| XII.| XIII.| XIV.