What is the deep web? A locked door.
So we learn as Johnson\'s speaker descends into his inferno, his Virgil a hacker for whom "nothing to stop him is reason enough to keep going," his Beatrice th. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson\'s Gatekeeper --selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry--it is the place where connection is darkly transfigured by distance and power.
A tool for oppression and for revolution.
What is the deep web? A locked door