The title page reads - Gnostic: the nome of she are words of power, unspeakable and dwelling in forrest shadow in the midst of insect song. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this poem is mushrooms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing is done on a page from a book on mushrooms and includes printed drawings of mushrooms and a caption. One of the mushrooms in the drawing is titled, "Scleroderma verrucosum." The title and subject of Sackner's first published medical book was "Scleroderma," a disease of humans and unrelated to the mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Marvin Sackner heard Basinski perform this poem at a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition, "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" at Ohio State University in 2002. Basinski read from the poem and commented on the images while turning the drawing side to side and upside down. After he completed this very droll performance, Sackner came up from the audience to ask him if he had ever recorded it. Basinski replied "no, because it is never the same each time that I do it." Lastly, Basinski indicated that the template for the layout of the poem was an opened Cheerios cereal box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print depicts the vowels, a e o in different calligraphic styles scattered throughout the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.