We slept in nets
of
sound, an undercurrent of wail
and flow,
light
and loneliness,
a name I remember yearning
for,
hands and the small
flickering
future.
~ An erasure of page 3 in Margaret Atdwoood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale
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I love how you always find the poem in passages like this. Wow! “We slept in nets.” “small flickering future.”
Thank you, Roberta. Glad to see you here again. Your poems are always a pleasure to read.
Elegant and concise, Karen! Also love the “small flickering future.” You have started Lexpomo out right!
Thank you so much, Sylvia. Looking forward to reading your poems.
So excited to see you back with this form— you are incredible with it! The source material alone is fabulous and you take it to a whole new level. Brilliant!
Thank you so much. I love Atwood and using her chosen words to create something new.
There you are 😀
As always your defy use of the other end of the pencil is staggering. Timely and I will say,
” the small
flickering
future. ”
Yes! There it always was and is and will be.
Happy june 🙂
Thank you, Coleman. I can’t wait to read your poems this month. I always look so forward to them.
You’re off to the races, Karen! Bang out of the gate.
Btw I will be posting a new erasure this month. As I was writing it I kept thinking, what would Karen do?
Thank you, Kevin! Look forward to seeing your erasure.
Your “What would Karen do” gave me a good laugh.
Dreamlike, Karen, with the little things taking the lead!
Thank you Nancy!
You really are the queen of erasure poems!
Thank you, Jeremy. I love writing different kinds of found poems.
This is gorgeous. I am in awe.
Thank you, Elaine.
The title is wonderful and evocative, the ending as well
Thank you, River! What a beautiful name to have.
Damn this is good
Thanks!
This honors Atwood but it also stands on its own
Thank you, Shaun.
Ahhh….you work majic with erasure!
Wow!! This poem is a stunner, and the source material makes it more so.
Your erasures are always amazing, Karen, & this one is no exception. And that ending–“flickering future”–wow!