My poem, “Love Is a Weather of Body,” is up on Spiral Orb Four, a journal of “permaculture” poetics! The editor, Eric Magrane, does a bang up job of choosing lines or fragments from each of the poems in the issue to create what he calls a “composted” opening poem that also serves as the table of contents. Very cool. He also hyperlinks the poems from within the issue which makes the reading experience a kind of diy adventure–you choose where to go next by clicking on the highlighted phrases in each poem.
It made me think of something I read recently in Jonathan Stalling’s essay on Ernest Fenollosa’s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry”:

“By using snapshots of dependently originating bundles, a poet, for Fenollosa, can actually mimic nature’s own infinitely interpenetrating flux while at the same time establishing conventional truths in beautiful harmonies within the patterns of language and nature itself.”

What the poet does on the level of the poem is what Magrane is doing on the level of the journal. It definitely feels connected to my poem and I’m really happy to be part of the permaculture!