“‘Hey,’ he said, half-asleep, ‘what were you before you met me?’
‘I think I was drowning.’
A pause.
‘And what are you now?’ he whispered, sinking.
I thought for a second. ‘Water.’”
–Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

For we are where we are not

(Pierre Jean Louve)

We would mainly investigate the structure of poems—a formal synthesis of the poem and the word. From this, we focused on the ways in which poetry can become architectonic.