I like the dynamic words of simply7 by Deena Larsen. It’s billed as a Flash treatise on the nature of language in electronic poetry. The words in this piece reflect words more closely to the way they behave in our minds than we are used to seeing when we read a text. Words don’t hold still in our minds, as they do on a printed page. Words don’t come in only one version in our minds; we often go through multiple possible speeches or drafts in our minds, simultaneously and quickly. We often think of several words that could do, but we must choose only one to fill its slot in a sentence. We sometimes have words behind words in our minds, one word we think behind the word we put out front, in public. Words in simply7 reflect all this.

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