Tag Archives: Erasure Poetry

invited to remember

Posted on December 29, 2025 by istsfor manity

Nightmare Erasures (redux) What I’m Reading: NO WRITING IS WASTED. EVEN WHAT WE THROW out is progress. — Elizabeth McCracken / A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

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wedge or arc

Posted on September 8, 2025 by istsfor manity

To Snare A Ghost (a blackout) Final List Electric bedroomNew witchAdd wall next to trackWedge or arcChange entry Too damaged byChangeWe want to keep them at 8 foot heightCloseMetal doorsNo change to living hard painChange vanityApart (we may do this … Continue reading →

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eff ew poets

Posted on June 19, 2025 by istsfor manity

erasure erasure What I’m Reading: … We’ve already sinned so much … — Anton Chekhov / The Cherry Orchard

pitched evoke image

Posted on February 24, 2025 by istsfor manity

American Scree 19 (erasure / blot poem #66) He demons in language.During his compositions not to cognition The letters instead The letterskind of flashycorrespond to kindof potential colors,whose called for colors, high pitchedevokeimage lights imagery,a whole kind of citydistanced from emphasis … Continue reading →

true blue americana

Posted on February 11, 2025 by istsfor manity

a ruin (a blackout) once we have torn shit downwanting and beingimmersive worksExpanding the surface dimension the revolutionary leadera ruinenslaved against the colonialgovernment of the united states the surface indigoenslaved A driverwoveninto “true blue” americana What I’m Reading: If the … Continue reading →

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the stone cool

Posted on August 17, 2024 by istsfor manity

offing blackout erasure redux What I’m Reading: I try to talkwith “I,” but “I” doesn’t trustme. “I” says I amslippery by nature. — Tori Derricotte / “Speculations about ‘I’”

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thang a thang

Posted on April 19, 2024 by istsfor manity

dullard-boy blues i gotta wap a dap thang a thang in my belfryan a framework for nuthinin my eyes ise got the bully-boy blues& a highlight reel of murderous abandonin my dullard-boy braini’se be living where realitymeets the fictions& i’se … Continue reading →

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edge of decay

Posted on April 18, 2024 by istsfor manity

Misbegotten Notes, USA (redux) Scrolling down a number of superimpositions they multiply—pages of writing, collages, painting, films—audio also multiplied as reading and new noise fades in… Also try flashlight projection of negatives or slides on wall and film it…. At … Continue reading →

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damaged by change

Posted on April 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

To Snare A Ghost (redux) (a blackout poem) Final List Electric bedroomNew witchAdd wall next to trackWedge or arcChange entry Too damaged byChangeWe want to keep them at 8 foot heightCloseMetal doorsNo change to living hard painChange vanityApart (we may … Continue reading →

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the rheumy discharges

Posted on January 27, 2024 by istsfor manity

Monologue Arpeggiator (Help me) Fade In. Above the blinding flats of white screen reveries: I’m flying over anonymous calamities with a courageous lack of temerity—then falling again. I plunge with celerity. A godwit plummet after 25,000 miles. Think of the … Continue reading →

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