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An eyeball looking at you from a corridor with passages, from a remake of Mazewar!
Image credit: Brian Gonnet / Rock Paper Shotgun

A poem is a news article is a video game is coordinate and procedure for extending a space. The space begins when the first line ends, folding a sentence back on itself to produce serried rows of straight and faceless flowers. This is the two-dimensional workfloor of the poem. Between the stems, the eye is a little animal or adventurer following the sentence as you would cobblestones through a clever wood made up of many, half-seen triggers and hinges that move or breathe according to the motion of your passage.

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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell: Clapped-out Soul Reaver enthusiast with dubious academic backstory who obsesses over dropped diary pages in horror games. Games journalist since 2008. From Yorkshire originally but sounds like he's from Rivendell.