Poetry from Shine Ballard

These poems were composed by means of a deterministic process called Natafero. Birth/death dates are used to create a number sequence which is used to read through a source text in which words, and or phrases, are extracted, creating a found-text poem.
 

delacroix

France,
settings,
saw brushstrokes
looked	for
restrained	Romanticists
turbulent	contemporary
Flemish
The Greek’s Romantic movement :

painting.”

was he
the enduring Delacroix
vivid		lasting		proud
the lions almost decorative

well
lived


 
hopper


had study
Although
styles			effect
was began to

who of work

Railroad,
From whether New
even all-
       night	own
by example
suffused dark
despite
palette,

 
o’keeffe


O’Keeffe
individ-
      ual child
York.

of ideas	friend
Alfred
influential
seen later,
that	personal
promoter
O’Keeffe	stark
of there
inspiration
close-
ups compel
new	the shadow.

the simple austere