Nick Carbó |
The Absence of Atmosphere |
A three-dimensional poem
Materials you will need for construction of the poem:
3 — three-foot-long
thin but sturdy sticks
1 — any kind of glue
15 — any kind of thread cut into two feet lengths
2 — printed color copies of the 3-D poem
Instructions for use:
cut out the spheres from page one in a vertical fashion.
Cut in this order:
(stick # 1) |
(stick # 2) |
(stick # 3) |
touch |
the |
lusty |
the |
undertow |
room |
bouncing |
legs |
removed |
to |
leave |
ululations |
Place the spheres on a flat surface with the words facing down (white
side
up) in the same order as above. Space the spheres evenly apart. Do the
same
for all three rows of words. Place one length of thread over the spheres
going down. Keep at least four inches of thread slack above the first
word
(touch) in order to tie it to the stick so the spheres will hang. Cut
out the
second copy of the poem spheres and glue the words to the same words
so
you will have a two-sided disk with a thread running through it. Glue
“touch” to “touch,” “the” to “the” and
so on. The same word should
appear front and back of the sphere. When you finish gluing a row, you
will
have four spheres with words connected to each other with a thread. Hang
this first row on one end of the three-foot long sticks.
Go on to page
two and do the same process of cutting, gluing, stringing and
hanging. Be sure to keep the order of the words and spheres intact in
their
proper rows. Repeat the same process for pages three, four and five.
You will
hang five evenly spaced rows on the stick. Do the same with the second
and
third sticks.
—
NICK CARBÓ is the author of three books of poetry, the latest
being Andalusian
Dawn (2004). He has edited three anthologies of Filipino writing, including
Pinoy Poetics (2004). His visual poems have been exibited at the “Infinity” show
at Harvard, the Studio Alternative, and the Museum of Contemporary Art
in
North Miami.
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