An Erasure

Monday, January 16, 2012

Here is an erasure poem I did in my writing group a while ago. I found it while cleaning up paperwork on my desk. It came from an article about football. Football is not where it ended up. Here’s the text if I were to format it like a poem:

Every shudder of injury for the usual reasons

adds a third layer of dread.

Conjecture about his eventual return.

The when. The what-if. The where does that leave you know who.

This is the act we’ve reached now

the breaking collarbone, the absence, the relief

elevated him to legend

One Comment

  1. This. Is. Fantastic.

    I can’t wait to get my hands on the Money page.

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