Streckfus, PeterSpurlock, Cloud2020-06-01https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11785This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until December 2029 at the earliest.This poetry thesis comes in two separate parts: “Aught to,” a lyric narrative that explores the effects of commercial time travel, and “Subjects of,” a collection of verse poems driven by sound, wordplay, and constraint. Poems in both collections employ multiple speakers and perspectives to raise questions about how we value records of human history and cultural preservation on a grand scale, juxtaposing those ideas with scenes of individual experience. Speakers often find themselves caught in spaces between definition.enPoetryNarrativeTimeWordplayThesis