Oni Buchanan’s online project The Mandrake Vehicles, with animation by Betsy Stone Mazzoleni, features text that crumbles, melts, and reassembles itself in new forms, moving from prose to poetry via several word collages that may be read in many different way, including as little packets of music such as “astral typhoon” or “cartoon emanates hemoglobin.” Buchanan explains at Conduit.org:

During the seven stages, two additional “secret” poems that have been embedded all along in each of the text blocks are revealed.

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