Mark Wyatt’s pattern poems employ a monospaced font. The reader interested in writing shape or pattern poems in this way could use a monospaced font in Microsoft Word, such as Aptos Mono, Cascadia Mono, or Courier New. Once the poem is conceptualized, the technique involves first developing the poem’s shape with the help of graph paper or ‘x’s on a computer screen. This step is crucial for determining how many characters (letters + spaces + punctuation marks) are required for each line, though poems with strict geometrical shapes, such as squares, will of course be even (e.g., 40 characters per line x 20 lines). While drafting the poem, the poet using this technique will constantly be counting letters, which thus function as number-like particles, contributing syntactically, semantically, and visually to the poem’s design.