But that is where his tie to run-of-the-mill poetics loses all of its threads. One could say he is an explorer engaging unknown adventure in his practice of poetry, and that description might hit closest to the mark. There is not a portion of Patient Zero that will not lead a reader to some new vistas to view, some unseen, thick-green valleys that lie just beyond what is mapped or to some depth no one has ever dreamed of descending.