Tag: poetic erasure
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Love Redacted
Love Redacted is a visual and conceptual poem that explores how intimacy survives under censorship in a totalitarian regime. Through redacted language, classified documents, and restoration files, it reveals that the true emotional weight lies not in what is written, but in what is erased. The poem invites readers to decode longing through absence, transforming…
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Still Life with Eraser
Still Life with EraserOn the news againthere is a still image—a little girl,standing outside the schoolshe will never enteragain.She is wearinga yellow dressprinted with childrenrunning through a field of lavender—one boy, in particular,has paused mid-playto gift his crusha five-thorn rose.I’ve written beforeabout other childrenwith her same sad end:ones who attendedother schoolsand never came homeon the…