I'm not set on this. In all but the one depicting some kind of sphere (and the one shown above that I consider a visual poem) a poet is certainly at work. A couple of the ones linked to remind me of a composition by C. L. Champion that I wrote about in my discussion of Minimalist Poetry at Karl Young's Light & Dust. Here's what I said about it: "One final alphaconceptual minimalist poem worth mentioning here is 'poema cocci.' A composition of C. L. Champion's, it reveals an almost mystic conceptual relationship between the word 'cloud' and fragments of the word "cloud." It consists of four scattered rectangles. 'Cloud' occupies the middle of one; in nother is a 'c'; and 'clod' is in a third. The fourth is empty. Sky, sea and earth . . . and mystery."

C. L. is another mystery. He was fairly active in our group (which needs some kind of name, it seems to me) but disappeared who knows where after a year or so. That was maybe as many as ten years ago. . . .

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