Instructions for Decay

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Sixteen Experiments in Love, Poetry & Physics

Heartbreak that runs on the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics you feel in your chest.

Sixteen poems, each inventing its own way to be read. One runs on cause and effect, so you move both directions through it. Another comes apart into entropy as you travel down the page. A third asks you to hold multiple timelines inside you at once. 

Entropy, quantum mechanics, general relativity, thermodynamics, and fractal geometry each become a form as much as a subject. The science is real. The emotion is devastating. These are love poems that happen to use physics, made for readers who want form and feeling to move as one thing, and come away forever changed. 

  • Sixteen formally experimental poems wherein the design, layout, and craft contains layers of unfolding meaning
  • Real physics rendered as real heartbreak, rigorous on both counts
  • True indie small-press: extremely limited physical first printing
Isentrope is a poet and a line of constant entropy: the path along which nothing is lost, a thing that only exists in theory. Everything real loses something along the way. Instructions for Decay was written from inside that failure.