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15 January 2005: I've been messing around in my head with Kosti's strings after arguing a bit with him about whether his become visual art when hugely enlarged for wall display. (I say, no, the result is visually-enhanced poetry, not art equally visual and verbal; I ordain that visually-enhanced poetry is poetry whose letters have been made into calligraphy, enlarged or reduced, re-fonted, colored, carved, chiseled, bold-faced, italicized, or spray-painted, and so forth--unless whatever change made is metaphorically significant. The word "thunder" in calligraphically rendered in yellow would be a trivial example of the latter.)

Whew, finally out of the parenthesis. Here's my string:



Nothing much to it--not even more than visually-enhanced--but suggestive of paths to follow, I think.























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