The x makes sense but I think the compass is a bit weak for what
seems to be what you are seeking. The directions that the secrets
take have rarely anything to do with the cardinal directions, but
more to do with conceptual directions. I think I would recommend
expressing "direction" visually within the word "secret." Maybe
showing them arranged in a crumpled path or with morphing fonts
implying a direction or stair stepped secrets. Or maybe this idea
would best be expressed in a polynomial function. good luck
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I'm really pleased that someone is taking my poem this seriously, and I like the idea of "stair stepped secrets." But I have two arguments against my correspondent's thoughts. One is that I (subjectively) believe that the cardinal directions connote directionality, or a sense of knowing where one is, more intensely and archetypally than any other simple graphic could. The other is that an important point of my poem, as I see it, is precisely that secrets do rarely have anything to do with cardinal directions--that's why cardinal directions have to be added to them to make them into something that equates (in some surrealistic or gnomic way) to "poetry." The long division indicates that I'm adding the cardinal directions (weirdly) to the crumpled scrap of old secrets to give them the organization they need to become a full-fledged form of poetry. Prior to that, the scrap is incompletely poetry, which is why there's a remainder.
There, that was fun--for me, if no one else. I love discussing all the hows and wherefores of my poems. So, once more, I thank my correspondent for giving me another opportunity to do so.
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