Light Steps Down,
a vagrant, living wild through generations of childreninfants who wake the sun with its mutter of wheels, &nbs...Read More
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O--- my fav anne porter--- Winter Twilight by Anne Porter On a clear winter's evening The crescent moon And the round squirrels' nest In the bare oak Are equal planets. i would study this poet...
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O i'm not familiar with the original poem. but i do love the experimenting even if i'm not sure how the erasure process is carried out. this is wonderful infants who wake the sun with its mutter of...
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here's the poem - cento-erasure might be a bit of my own coinage, not sure. More cento, I think. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20501
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Gosh, I'm in love with this. It's a very effective erasure of the original. I've been in love with the idea of erasure poetry since encountering David Dodd Lee's excellent pursuit/expression of the...
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Thanks, everyone and Laurel, thanks for unreservedly taking to this. I did change the order of the lines, a tiny bit. And I added one of my own, with an almost-repeat of the title. But you know, when...
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It was a pleasure to read this, especially after I figured out what the form was. Then all those blank spaces seemed to take on added significance.I really can't think of anything to change. I enjoyed...
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Hi Michael, nice to see you here. Happy New Year -- and thanks for commenting Alison/Osal
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ignoring erasure or writing through another poem ... this is terrific just as is, read without context or pretext. if anything, the density made it drag on me a bit, that would be my impatience not...
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Hi Jim, thanks for your generous comments. You sent me back to look at the original - for the longest time I couldn't find the choirs or "mad", and was afraid I might have fabricated it. I couldn't...
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