Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Preliminary Erasure-Tanka

1
Only the reader
works at it. But the poet
created the work
by whiting out most of the
words. Nice work if you get it.

2
Too lazy to write
erasure poems—I’d have
to tediously
mark out lines and strings of words.
I’m way too jumpy for that.

3
Erasure writing
would be meditative—like
bird watching—bird up
there hiding in the leaves.
OK, I'm out of here.