“fractious fractals”
Streetlamp fracture —
a hand lifts into stone.
Shadow pressed flat,
pavement swallows the gesture.
Petal of asphalt,
rain glosses its edge.
Wall breaks light,
a bird pivots mid‑air.
Faces blur,
glass aperture holds them.
Train breath,
shadow slides across tile.
Tongue of rain,
syllables scatter on tin.
Chalk petals,
erased by a passing shoe.
Stone cools,
light fractures its edge.
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Author:
crypticbard (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Footnote: This poem is composed in a prototype form called the Ban‑Cycle Stanza. Each stanza operates under a rotating ban‑list: certain motifs are forbidden in one stanza, then required in the next, while new bans are introduced. The cycle creates tension through absence and renewal through return, making constraint itself the generative engine of the poem.
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