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  Petric Poetic In-Principles: 

  • Stone is a signifying medium
  • Words emerged from the earth.
  • Language can merge with stone.
  • Poetic principles may be expressed in stone compositions.
  • The visual is tactile: touch with the eyes, see with touch.
  • By-directional absorption: absorb stone-language by becoming absorbed by the language of stones.
  • Conformity: a lithic literacy seeks "a kind of word magic, the power that certain terms possess to enchant our relations with nature and place" (Robert Macfarlane).
  • Unconformity: “words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures.” (Smithson)
  • Petric poetics prioritizes a present moment pregnant with epiphanic potential.
  • Petric poetics prefers pithy, proverbial prompts that readily proffer themselves to readers to play with.
  • Petric Poetics pursues an inverse relation between brevity in form and duration of absorption.
  These petric poetic in-principles are laid out along the paths below.