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Final Day


Today is the final day of National Poetry Writing Month. I will continue to add erasure poems on this site, but not daily. I end this month with two erasures, finishing up the page started yesterday (above)

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A bird

is an important

support; a

part of a balance

between

a ship

and the sun;

a signal to guide

pilots-- Like a

beam of light: radiant.

No

small

weight

to carry.













































BEAR


We say

be patient; endure;

we tend

at some point

to sink--

resent

the one person

with a head

held up.


I am shaggy

hair and

most uncouth;

a person

who tries to--

in the disorder--

grow used to the

so called

shape of the leaf.


























Today I pulled out the encaustic supplies I brought with me when I moved to Germany in order to test the dictionary paper under wax. I wanted to share the results with you.


I was worried the transparency of the paper in wax would cause the chosen word to be too obscured to legible. Instead it creates a nice palimpsest effect.


I hope those of you who have visited this blog because of poetry month, will check in time to time to see the development of this project. It found new life this month thanks to the daily prompts and the sense of community NaPoWriMo fosters.

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