Poetry. LOVE AND ILLUSTRATION is a book of poems and pictures composed of words and the letter "o." The poem/texts develop floating patterns in which the word "love" is unspoken as it shapes events that illustrate its presence; and so "love" enters vocabularies. The words of the poems and the pictures develop a lexicon of "o's" semiotic correspondences as particles, geometric form, mouths, eyes, dust, snow . . . of its expressive qualities as awe, lamentation. . . . and of its numerical life. In its plays with scale and fairytale, the book evokes the miniaturization of childhood and the fascinations of first readings in picture books when experience is less categorical and more in tune with pure imagination and codes. Saddlestapled chapbook.