Shloka Shankar created “The Boundary of Structure” from Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900). Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, Shloka Shankar writes:

Inspired by the Dial-A-Text Oulipo prompt on appliedpoetics.org, I noted down my close friend’s mobile number and altered two digits to avoid repetition and replace a zero. Each number corresponded to a line on the page. For example, the digit 6 meant copying down the sixth line on the first page and so on. I did this thrice to get a sizable word bank. Then I highlighted words and phrases from these mostly incomplete sentences and made a second word bank. From this, the final poem emerged as a remix.

Also by Shloka Shankar at Heron Tree:  “The Desert of My Love” and “A Trick of Thought.”