Wishes: Annie's wishes only

"Designed for the 1999-2000 issue of Riding the Meridian, 'wishes' is part of Abraham's larger being human cyberpoem. The charming 'wishes' site consists of a random array of demure boxes that flash into place when the site first loads . . . One link opens to a dialogue box where the readers are invited to contribute their wishes as well, and the design of the site, with its tender ethos, sweetly persuades. In a pop-up box, linked to the small 'info' at the bottom right of the site, Abrahams explains that readers can contribute wishes to another website connected to this project, and those wishes will be integrated into multimedia artwork that cycles back and forth between the web and the real world. While this version of 'wishes' created for Riding the Meridian contains only 'Annie's wishes,' the promise, invitation, and pleasure of the digital poem lie in the readers becoming a part of its spirit. As the poet notes in her info pop up, she will 'guard' the wishes the readers entrust to her, 'shaping' them into HTML with the help of other web artists and 'html lovers.' Thus, 'wishes' owes its aesthetic and ethical identity to an ecology of factors: artist, readers, word, image, scene, and machine." -- From Kristie S. Fleckenstein, "Distributed Authorship, Beauty, and Ethico-Aesthetic Resonance," KAIROS

Users today should note that the original poetry of "Wishes" made use of mouseover events (i. e. "hover") for important literary functions, such as encoding double meanings. This functionality has since been lost, so users would need to look at the original code to recover the intentions there.