The wonderful thing about “Firefly” was that no matter how many times you clicked on that line to change the outcome of the poem, it still made sense. For an author to invest that time into making sure that enough adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc., were able to work and fulfill the reader’s needs is an accomplishment for the author.

          The poems are full of imagery. “Later they come in oncoming twilight,” another one, “evening dew licks me to still my breath.” That is powerful imagery that allows the reader to be engulfed in the poems and as Landow said to keep clicking.

          The flow is not always perfect. For instance, “And we wait through long liquid swaths, spiraling inward as if drawn of reflecting rain.” That poem is perfect until that last stanza, “of reflecting rain.” It doesn’t quite flow, but the brilliance of this hypertext is that if the line doesn’t mesh well enough, all that needs to be done is a click on the mouse.

          The poems are not long, just five lines, but if your get tired of the poem you can continue it with another click of the mouse down in the left hand corner of the box, and if you get confused about how the test is set up Larsen gives you a great introduction in the right hand column. Larsen made this hypertext so that you could read and look for new forms of imagery throughout the whole text.