The Shape of Poetry to Come

What does it mean to be the eye in desire? What does it mean to be “kissed by kohl? Is the cursive I the same as the I in italics or ever more than an imaginary unit? Or put another way—does consciousness lean perpendicular to the physical plane? Is improvisation ever more than a series of miraculous accidents? I consider this poem to be (among other things) an Ars Poetica of a style I call HyperQBism. The future of poetry is hyperQBist. At the heart of it is a colorpuntal (ghost poem + host poem) a hyperform (a form which only exists superposed with another form) plus footnotes (which themselves can contain poems)  I post this here as a screenshot because I haven’t figured out how to get the footnotes to display correctly yet. But anyway this poem is also what I call an Iceberg sonnet (where the bulk of the lines are submerged below the “text” of the poem). Both the body of the poem & the notes contain references to the Periodic Table of Elements and the chemical symbols & atomic numbers of the elements listed in the poem can form additional text. What difference does it make that the chemical symbol for Silicon is “Si” or that its atomic number is 14? I’m counting the footnotes as part of the poem even though I have other sonnets with footnotes where I don’t count them as part of the sonnet itself. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself.” Keep in mind that an I in cursive appears to be an eye in motion