Tag: Erasure Poetry

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A Tropical Fever

Charlotte Hamrick

A Tropical FeverOn the island nightwas a wall of flameascended, receded, opened,disappeared again.He was feverish,vague, unsettled —preparation was almostexecution.Pleasure bound, all was ready,minutes doubled into desiremore poetical in the obscurityof the night.Thoughts, illusions, anticipation,the island loomed large.He could not close his eyesfor a moment. Na/GloPoWriMo day 5. This is an erasure created from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas via Project Gutenberg. See screenshot below of the selected page. I’ve been watching th PBS production so it seemed a good idea to use a page from the text. Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Continue reading A Tropical Fever

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NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every day: Cessation Summary

Charlotte Hamrick

Cessation Summary the girl began scraping offdistressclawing it with bare fingerssteelbladeblood combinedvia passage light travelsleapsbounceseyes praise honeythis coat so privateamplifiedto rise above Off prompt today. Erasure poem created from the essay “New Technologies of Reading” by Angela Woodward in 2017 Pushcart Prize XLI anthology. My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every day: Cessation Summary

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Something Small, Every Day (or so): Poet

Charlotte Hamrick

Poetintimacy of atomsbooks and paperslettersyellow paperaid feelingsworking behind objects andtrouble perspectiveI – amateurin a windowless officecan never be knownas something morethan a slippageassembled My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading Something Small, Every Day (or so): Poet

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Something Small, Every Day (or so): Patterns

Charlotte Hamrick

Erasure created from text in Start Small: How Tiny Nature Grows Hope by Michela Griffith. I recently discovered Michela’s Substack which focuses on nature photography and observations from her home in Northeast Scotland. Her prose is gorgeous and insightful. I recommend her site. My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading Something Small, Every Day (or so): Patterns