Jen Besemer is the author of Ten Word Problems, Quiet Vertical Movements, and The Earth Is What Happens. A frequent contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, Jen also regularly has visual and prose poems in places like BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Artifice, and PANK.
For a minute or two in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I played Myst and its first sequel, Riven. I loved the way the games allowed me to closely explore the world on the screen, down to what was then an unheard-of degree of detail. To be honest, I spent more time putting my virtual nose…
