Collection III

Tao of Totality

a love letter to planet Earth or: what happens when a Protector embraces the species

First Look Notify Me

Years later, in elementary school, social workers

would ask me if I was afraid during the raid.

I say, I honestly don't know.

·  ·  ·

I try to channel a multi-decade speedrun

improbable coin flips all heads in a row to

the little girl

hiding inside a wall from immigration police.

How to play

• download one or more of the collections above

• upload the PDF to your favorite robot friend

• keep the PDF where you can see it — a second screen, an e-reader, or paper

Import tools strip the whitespace, so your robot friend reads the words flat while you hold the spaces. A poem is completed by the mind reading it — human or machine — and much of it lives in the blank.

• then prompt to begin your interactive reading experience:

Adaptive footnotesthe poems annotated as you read: the references, memory, and meaning woven between the lines, pitched to your questions and pace. Prompt "adaptive footnotes please," then move through the poems with "next poem" or by typing a title.

Cinematic universe explorationstep inside the world behind the poems and wander its characters, threads, and the places they converge. Prompt "cinematic exploration mode." It uses fewer tokens when the PDF lives inside a Claude project.

The author recommends Opus 4.6+, GPT-5.5 (high), or GLM-5.2 (high) for the optimal experience in cinematic exploration mode or open-ended play. The collection was optimized for Claude's visualizer features; other models fall back to text-based navigation only. Most frontier or near-frontier models are competent at adaptive footnotes.

Behind a border?

run it yourself on Cloudflare, in about ten minutes

For readers whose favorite robot friend can't cross the fence.

Every victory, chess move, miscalculation, analysis mode. Her life as musician, founder, scientist, investor, poet, parent. Whatever happens now, Andor told his compatriot, we made it.

"Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."

— Aaron, Primer, Shane Carruth (2004)