Found-word Collage Poems

Below are five previously unpublished found-word collage poems (in order):

-- a pathogen

-- desperate

-- evenings

-- fast

-- the shattered

These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (2400+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the equivalent of a poetic line) is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or punctuation) and includes no attributable phrases. The lines of each collage are, in most cases, sourced from different magazines.