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Today, an erasure poem. Of course, I'm looking for a specific little pamphlet that was on my desk until I cleaned it off before we went away. Do you think I can find it today? Of course not. Can I think of any other source text I'd like to use? Ditto.
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Found a link to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and pulled the last 750 or so words to use as source.
Started the elimination dance. Got rid of lots of words!
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Until eventually, this:
SLIPS AND STONES
slips papers breeze
glance keep each one
box the box
hold tight wonderingly
friends switching slip
red and overlarge
snatched out and held
slip sound edges
the way open
open
slip
then look, unfolded,
blank
hushed, show slip
out of hand
black black night
heavy and astir
finish forgotten ritual
remembered stones
made ready; stones
blowing stone
small stones gasping
stones and pebbles
held out
fair stone
fair
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1 comment:
That's brilliant. I didn't do the prompt - thought it was too difficult. SEe my words at:
gramswisewords.blogspot.com
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