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Each of these “zooms” depicts the act of recursive reframing as a kind of “fall,” either a “falling away” (as if pushed from a receding point), or a “falling into” (as if pulled down a swelling abyss). Each of us might undergo a sense of vertigo during this zoom through the void, since we traverse boundless distances via superluminal acceleration, typically forbidden by the laws of physics. With the fall of such a zoom in mind, let me display some of the conceivable, dimensional limits for the minimal element of composition in poetry. For me, at least, all concepts of poetry depend upon a premise about this unit (or “atom”), which poets must recopy and adjoin. I believe that every literary movement teaches a poet to commit to the value of a minimal element in writing, and this unit provides the standard for the scale at which any literary creation can occur.