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.”
Elegant and concise, Karen! Also love the “small flickering future.” You have started Lexpomo out right!
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!
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 🙂
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?
Dreamlike, Karen, with the little things taking the lead!
You really are the queen of erasure poems!
This is gorgeous. I am in awe.
The title is wonderful and evocative, the ending as well