Second prize winner of the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Get your Indian blanket

from the shop ’round the

                corner.

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They sent us thousands.

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Grey on one side,

the other different,

woven from ground psalms

and iniquity,

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         still warm.

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Kind of thin, but pretty.

Erasure poetry begins with removing letters and words from an existing text in order to create a new stand-alone piece that provides new meaning to the original passage. For the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest, we posted an excerpt from a prose poem, Cottonopolis, by Rachel Lebowitz.

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