erasure poetry

Rob Halpern's Disaster Suites, erased_Page_1

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Rob Halpern’s “disaster suites” erased

force this.
slow.
this accumulation—
this you and ‘the
ships’
which silence
—me.

But I say, “I am
Tortured
numbered
singing,
but I can’t
keep
Roots”

his voice
blue         gaunt
wild

I’d be anything
lost
above the
plot
to value
What won’t count

I just can’t be
Spreading