Poem from 9/7 reading list

Continuing my practice of sharing my reading list followed by the poems I make from it, here is the poem I just wrote from the texts referenced in my previous post:

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We, “the keeper[s] of lists in the house of dread,”1 take our orders from the alphabet, but not everything we gathered could be represented by its letters, no matter how many diacritics we used. In ou...