The outcome of The Poem Tree is a book made up of ten thin sheets of acrylic board, bound with colorless fishing line. The pages are translucent, and use a laser-cut machine to draw the images. I picked twenty-six different colors to represent the English alphabet. I created a design system that matched colors to each letter and then used the parts of speech to generate forms, graphically translating the structure of the poem into a complex form. Text is no longer just the letters and punctuation marks that form words, sentences, and paragraphs. The fonts used in my project are not typefaces, but alphabetic codes; rather than being ‘read,’ the typeface is decoded by the viewers. Type can be image. Type can be sound. Type can be color.