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He types "go here"; encloses it
in an anchor ref. Now, if you click
on the words,
the thing will happen. He writes code
to make words dance, change colour,
come alive.
He can make them shape the image
of his new book cover,
with secret text
embedded; when the cursor rests,
adventure leaps out.
And he can't believe
the power, the way words move,
at last, as he wants,
the way they turn
into sounds and patterns, the way
they send his readers
on the journey
he chose for them. He spends
whole days online, can't sleep
for thinking up
page after page, hooked
on creation, and he hasn't written
a poem in months.
From The Yellow Crane No 20 (Spring 2002)