i've never picked a protected flower (2018);

i've never picked a protected flower is a book of concrete unicode poems, assembled each run by a program written in node.js. The poems are constructed out of forum post titles, with semantic grouping from Conceptnet. The code and a technical walkthrough are on Github.

Download a pdf of the book here.

a page of the book; dense landscape of text with a few lines picked out; backwoods words and peach cobbler words and puffer-coat-trimmed-in-faux-ermine words dense fields of text characters

dense fields of text characters dense fields of text characters genus collector