In the mid-1980s I found a partial Chinese dictionary discarded in a dumpsite that has since become the Strathcona Community Gardens. AGILE emerged from the pages of this dictionary, each page representing a letter—A-G-I-L-E—which together form the word. It continues the ongoing project dotting like flatheads: this is the English I learn, started in 1996, where I use correction fluid—a tedious medium that dries quickly, not agile in the least—to “white out” a bulk of each page, leaving behind poetic fragments.