Tag: poetic reversal
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Reverse Erasure
Reverse Erasure began as a mirror to my earlier poem Erasure. I wanted to see what happens when destruction runs backward — when the horror of disappearance becomes a slow reclamation of form. The poem’s reverse sequence borrows from Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, but replaces cinematic violence with the mechanical violence of graphite, paper, and dust.…
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Undo
“Undone” emerged from my lifelong reckoning with memory and survival. After losing family members in a tragic accident, I found myself haunted by the idea of reversal—not just of time, but of blame, grief, and the unintelligible aftermath. The poem imagines a world where trauma rewinds: collisions un-happen, blood disappears, and the dead return to…