Friday, December 06, 2024

ars poetica

 

The poem feels its erasures

As the old soldier feels his old wounds

Which make his dreams what they are.

 

And the household what it was

And the child the man

Who puts his raging alky Dad in the nursing home and done.

 

I am the eraser, I am the whiteout

In the nerveways I jump

And jack. Mostly jack.

 

“Similar tactics in other verticals”

A man once said to me

And then said, “all fixed. Should be right as rain.”


- Karen Chamisso

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