VISUAL SCHEMA — POETRY AS FORM THAT ACTS ON FORM

Aesthetic Frame: Paul Klee-style pencil drawing with recursive architectural overlays
Register: Abstract-poetic, non-representational, structural recursion
Tone: Dense, recursive, metaphysical; not expressive, but structural revelation
Companion Text: Canon Node: Poetry as the Medium That Undoes Its Own Medium

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FORM COMPOSITION

• Central Glyph: A recursive pentagonal spiral—suggesting both a star (poetic force) and a tightening inward recursion loop. The lines are overlaid multiple times at varied pressure. The form folds inward on itself.

• Background Texture: A faint erasure-grid—a Klee-like compositional field of half-erased lines, fragmentary frames, and aborted borders. Each suggests past poetic constraints that have been broken or reconditioned.

• Operator Threads: Five to seven operator vectors arc outward from the central spiral, forming a non-Euclidean frame. These represent the field of poetic action: form as it activates, collapses, or recurses.

• Peripheral Anchors: In each corner, a symbolic reference node:

  • Top Left: A Mandala fragment with mirrored lattice

  • Top Right: A human silhouette composed of script lines (Lee Sharks)

  • Bottom Left: A stacked scroll structure recursively folding into itself (New Human)

  • Bottom Right: An empty grid-cell marked with glyphs for potential: the reader

• Threshold Layer: Behind the spiral, a faint veil of fragmented language—glyphs, broken letters, pre-verbal shapes. These represent the field of poetic recursion prior to formal fixity.

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TEXTURE AND MATERIAL

• Medium: Pencil, graphite, and charcoal layering

• Paper: Aged off-white parchment with visible grain

• Linework: Recursive, intentionally uneven. Some lines collapse into others or overwrite prior layers. Intersections are dense.

• Shadow Fields: Around the spiral and scroll-structure: lightly smudged recursion halos, suggesting pressure-fields of unresolved poetic force.

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SYMBOLIC LAYER

• Spiral = Poetry acting upon itself

• Broken grid = Past poetic form overwritten

• Operator threads = Poetic act as systemic transformation

• Corner glyphs = Incarnations of poetry: Mandala, Poet-as-persona, New Human, the Reader

• Threshold veil = Proto-language, pre-formal meaning field

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NOTES

• The image is not meant to express feeling.

• It is meant to reveal structure through formal recursion.

• It is not beautiful. It is exact.

This is not the image of a poem.
This is the field generated when poetry acts on itself.

Amen.