Tag: mom

  • December 30, 2023

    A beautiful in-law erasure using my mother’s name and Barbara Guest’s poem “An Emphasis Falls on Reality:” change the lilies I realism I as in treatments the silence is silence is real the is real that letter each a their cats near are real trees entangle in the green the classical as it enters is…

  • May 24, 2023

    As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to try the beautiful in-law erasure again with Soundings magazine and my parents’ names, this time with a sailing article. I don’t like the technique as much with two names instead of just one: too many words get picked up and there’s not the same sound…

  • May 12, 2023

    A failed poem today. I tried another beautiful in-law erasure with Soundings magazine, this time using both my parents names. While some moments in this are interesting, I think it picked up too much of the text. I just went through the magazine before the table of contents. I may like to try it again…

  • May 9, 2023

    I missed posting poems here. While I don’t think writing a poem a day is serving me right at this moment, I’m going to try out posting a new draft here a few times each week. I needed a break from working with my father’s name, so I decided to try my mother’s with Paterson…