Arcanagrams: A Reckoning re-imagines inherited cosmology using only the letters found in certain family and religious names. These poems are a wrestling and a reckoning with certain tenets of the small religious sect the author was raised in, which was based on the writing of Emanuel Swedenborg, an Enlightenment-era scientist and revelator. The resulting odd spellings and tilted grammar are meant to defamiliarize some of Swedenborg's punishing ideas around gender, while obviating the compellingly weird aspects of his writings.
