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8 February 2005: Yesterday I got a package in the mail from the Australian poet, Thalia, with whom I have a book-exchanging agreement. Among the books she sent me was one who goes by the symbol for pi followed by a dash and a zero. His book, , consists of almost 300 poems composed of numbers only (except for decimal points), nearly all of them eleven lines in length. Visio-numerical poems, I'd call themn--not mathematical poems since they don't perform mathematical operations, so far as I can tell. It should not be much of a surprise that I am delighted with them. I haven't had time to mold a Full Response to them yet, so will now just present the contents of one more or less randomly chosen pair of facing pages of Pi-Oh's book:

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