What a fascinating piece! You know that I'm a sucker for an author playing with the format and you really let loose here. I liked how the smaller text began to mix with the regular sized. I also really enjoyed the beginning and end parts with the thin vertical lines of text, they created a super strong effect on the way I read it. I'm not totally sure how to feel about the grid, but I enjoyed reading it different ways each time I went through the poem.
Now this may be a skill issue on my part, but in my first reading, I got caught up a variety of unfamiliar words. They had high concentrations together, which did create interesting sounds but the comprehension is not expect to glean on an unfamiliar read was a little less than what I expected? Also when I started reading these words I would sometimes trip up on them and it would take me out of the poem. This is a hard criticism to make because I don't want you to dumb down your writing, but I feel like you could communicate the feeling of the words with needing a person to totally understand each words' meanings.
Also are you using stomates and decussation correctly? Those still don't make sense to me when I look it up.
This poem made me feel defiant, like the speaker knows they're righteous, but also defeated and mourning. It feels like the speaker hates what/who they're talking to, but also mourn what they could've been. The poem illustrates how they got to that point but maybe also their thought process when they see whatever/whoever. I currently am having trouble grasping more than that, but hopefully everything I've written is helpful! Please let me know if you have any questions.
