I decided to return to Rachel McKibbens April 1 prompt to create an erasure poem from a page torn out of The Road. I used all the words left, and no additional words, but not in a particular order.
ERASURE POEM FROM THE ROAD
(prompt 27, Rachel McKibbens http://rachelmckibbens.blogspot.com/)
burning city
country river
just as I conceived
it to be
the boy
the common beast
the dead snakes
no remedy
cold hard edges
exposed
on hillside grounds
rose rock
whispered
and left
a lost moon
in blackness
© puma perl, 4/7/11
Loving this. That book seems to lend itself well to this style. Saw a few others from the same book posted today, but this is one of my favorites. "the boy/ the common beast/ the dead snakes" <--- powerful imagery
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