9.8.2025

IF AUTUMN COMES | TEN-PASS ERASURE

Photo: Miguel Carraça

here
     at the edge

ripped
     by hail

struck bitter and hard
     like refuse driven to one side

refuse to fall
     to let go

refuse to leave
     the garden

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NOTE: Although this erasure poem took shape in ten consecutive passes through “Approach of Winter,” the line breaks don’t always map precisely to the breaks between passes. I won’t use up bandwidth or your kind attention by “showing my work.” Seek, if so moved, and ye shall find.