Jon Woodward

An Estuary

A flat volitional landscape that allows
Seeing to extend. I have perfect vision

Encoded intensity snapped or snapping free of
The handle what's unsatisfactory is the handle

I'm glued inside a cardboard box in a city
So vision ratchets in on itself

Exposing the falsehood of interiority
As surface phenomenon masking fish

These couplets were laid out according to rules
Another poem formed and then this one

The reflections of fish shapes swimming
On the underside of the water surface exposed

Enacted volition should be relayed by
Card events only and without elaboration

Only played cards shall become volition
Everything attendant shall remain free of it

Up cards can mean written words
Down cards can mean unverified things

Only the up cards encode words
The down cards are unsponsoring