- shared middle
- alternation
- shared beginning and ending
- shared beginning
- shared ending
RegEx Poetry Machine
Place two words in a space. What does the topography look like, to traverse between them? Where do meanings fold and multiply? What can we imagine if we draw the two together like shards of coloured glass?
This is a tool for making what I call RegEx pattern poems. Inspired by Dan Waber, Kate’s vaguely reassuring state machines, and R. F. Kuang’s Babel, pattern poems are one-word poetic programs that reappropriate regular expressions as a layered incantation of inarticulate intimations.
These ideas have also been ferried around in the vehicles of other projects, including Coem and ProsePlay.