Elegy: A Morphology of Loss

A rigorous formal exploration of loss governed entirely by natural morphology.

Composed within the strict theoretical framework of Absolute Composition, Elegy: A Morphology of Loss discards conventional symbolic substitution, metaphor, and emotive exposition in favor of lawful natural systems. As Book III of The Morphology Series, this sequence of fifteen structurally constrained poems bridges matter, mind, and being through an ordered succession of scientifically verifiable phenomena.

Moving progressively from Invocation through First Fracture, Desire, Reckoning, and finally Elegy, each poem instantiates the exact structural organization, threshold conditions, and causal sequences of a specific physical, geological, ecological, atmospheric, hydrological, or biological behavior. The poems do not teach or illustrate science; they depend upon it as a compositional constraint. By treating natural processes as invariant structures rather than decorative imagery, the work discovers that human experience and natural phenomena may share identical structural relations without reducing one to another.

Designed for readers and scholars of contemporary experimental poetry, structural aesthetics, and formal poetics, Elegy offers both a continuous elegiac narrative and a series of precise formal demonstrations.