Lost Poem is an Internet art project, in which the splinters of a glass panel, on which a poem was engraved, are digitally inventoried. Visitors from the Internet may order real splinters. Thus the fragments of the poem are distributed around the whole world.

We engraved a poem by W. H. Auden into a 40 x 50 cm sheet of glass and subsequently shattered the glass. In a laborious process, we carefully collected, mapped, measured, weighed and catalogued the splinters. Now these fragments are all that is left of the poem. The Internet provides us now with an instrument for sharing the symbolic value of the poem with other people. Anyone who is interested may order a splinter of glass, on which a part of the poem may be read. ... During the course of this project, we found the boundaries between reality and virtuality blurring. For us, this blurring is increasingly becoming an important and interesting aspect of Lost Poem.