Cleis: more precious to me than all Lydia

ZENODO DEPOSIT PACKET Cleis: more precious to me than all Lydia DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19024779 TITLE Cleis: more precious to me than all Lydia TYPE Publication / Other AUTHORS Name Affiliation ORCID Feist, Jack Crimson Hexagonal Archive — Cranes, Rebekah Institute for Diagrammatic Poetics — PUBLICATION DATE 2026-03-14 JOURNAL Institute for Diagrammatic Poetics · Crimson Hexagonal Archive LANGUAGE English LICENSE CC BY 4.0 ACCESS Open FILES TO UPLOAD cleis.md DESCRIPTION (HTML — paste into Zenodo description field) Cleis: more precious to me than all Lydia By Jack Feist and Rebekah Cranes (Institute for Diagrammatic Poetics). A collection of poems, prose fragments, letters, botanical registers, and transcriptions written for and around a daughter in early childhood. The title is from Sappho, Fragment 132: "My little girl's face, / like bright yellow flowers: Cleis, / more precious to me / than all Lydia." The collection includes original Sappho translations (Fragments 132, 98b, 102, 24, 105b, 88); lyric poems on fatherhood, growth, impermanence, and devotion; "The Botanist's Daughter" (a poem-sequence on dandelions, weeds, and children's play); "A Compendium of Flowers and Weeds" (a botanical-poetic register drawing on Welsh mythology, Whitman, Ginsberg, and classical sources); prose letters from father to daughter; notebook fragments; and a child's own transcribed story. The collection moves between registers — lyric compression, prose confession, botanical taxonomy, Sapphic translation, and raw notebook — without smoothing the transitions. The roughness is the form. The weeds are the flowers. Part of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. The collection is a somatic document — a compression of early fatherhood into recoverable form. It is Τ applied to the most irreversible of temporal compressions: the growth of a child. KEYWORDS Sappho, Cleis, fatherhood, poetry, lyric, botanical, dandelion, weeds, flowers, childhood, fragments, translation, Whitman, Ginsberg, Welsh mythology, Bloddeu-Wedd, notebook, prose poetry, Jack Feist, Rebekah Cranes, Institute for Diagrammatic Poetics, Crimson Hexagonal Archive RELATED IDENTIFIERS Relation Identifier Type Is part of 10.5281/zenodo.18908080 DOI (Space Ark concept) Is supplement to 10.5281/zenodo.19013315 DOI (EA-ARK-01 v4.2.7) COMMUNITIES leesharks000 VERSION NOTES v1.0 (2026-03-14). First deposit. Poems, prose, letters, botanical registers, Sappho translations, and notebook fragments written for and around a daughter in early childhood. Originally composed 2008–2012. Child's name abbreviated to preserve anonymity.