for whatever personal reason he has, he writes out all his poems by hand�as a replacement for typesetting. And his beautifully neat yet quirky handwriting lends an air of elegance to his poems, even as it makes them a little more difficult to fathom. The handwriting that is the carapace of these poems tends to obscure the fact that his poems read like this:

co-opt out, writing out of
steam, hundred these, what�s 
your think, get rid of the
comma, what will have to
be done, fortunate error,

I left the following comment (slightly edited for clarity below) at his blog:

Ha, Geof, now I'm going to criticize your use of an unconventional word where I think a conventional one would do: you use "plaintext" to mean "printed," or maybe 'fonted' (except that that would be unconventional, too, I imagine)--as opposed to "cursive."

Or you mean by "plaintext," "printed using a conventional font?" "Plainfont" would thus be better, particularly since I have already been using "plaintext" for several years (maybe even a decade or more) to mean "conventional freeverse" (as opposed to the unconventional freeverse of language, visual and other xenovernacular poets).

On the other hand, I think I went back to "freeverse"--as a subcategory of vernacular poetry.

My note to Geof is preposterously trivial. I thought it was amusing, though, that one of my own words (I can't believe it was original with me, but its definition was) now seeps into usage . . . incorrectly! I also do believe that accepted terms for the various letter-forms used in poetry might be valuable. But I'm certainly open to the suggestion that a poetics taxonomy can responsibly end before getting to such terms. In fact, I very much doubt my taxonomy will include them.

Good to have an excuse to show off more good poetry and poetry commentary, too (although that "ridden" may be a little off . . .).

Incidentally, a week or more ago while riding my bike to work, I rescinded a term of mine. But I can't remember what it was. Very annoying. I'm eager to reduce the number of neologies in my poetics, but it's hard to.

Note: I've decided to indicate quoted texts longer than a few words with colors from now on. Why stay traditional when the Internet can make something much easier?