Poet’s note to editor:

“Jackpot” is based on the Rotas-Sator square. I’d be interested to see it made three dimensional. Perhaps it could be a bit of a game, like a Rubik’s cube. Or a slot machine. (Or a Rubik’s cube/slot machine.) Or maybe it could start as a strand of two-dimensional text, then hit a wall, like a tape measure, then another and another, etcetera until a three-dimensional shape based on the logic of the Rotas-Sator square is revealed. Then maybe it could work backward, like Theseus in the labyrinth, toward again becoming the two-dimensional poem on the page.

Editor’s note to reader:

This, indeed, is a poem destined for the digital. While you may perceive it as a static image on a page, the arrangement of characters is anything but. Should you feel yourself given over to the dynamism of its oscillating allusions, imagine its motion: a moment of transmutation, the permutation of possibilities, an orderly reordering of association rendered in the traversal of your sight line. If you see it, you’ve already won.