“An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and webpages.”¹ “Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard.”¹ “Unicode (also known as The Unicode Standard) is a character encoding standard […] designed to support the use of text in all of the world’s writing systems that can be digitized.”² Within Unicode, each emoji has a corresponding Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) American English Short Name.

The poems in Butterfly Love Letter are each represented visually and textually. Visually, each poem is displayed as a sequence of emoji. Textually, their American English Short Names are sequenced in a traditional, word-based poetic format. Readers are sure to delight in the rhymes, tongue twisters, and thematically senseless sequences.*

1 Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
2 Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
* Nothing is certain.