erasure

 

a woman erases herself
as paper wasps make shapes
the wind untethers

© Shaney Herrmann

erasure

a woman erases herself
as paper wasps make shapes
the wind untethers

a woman erases
herself
             as paper

wasps make shapes

the wind
             untethers

a woman
              erases

her     self

as paper wasps     make

          shapes the wind
                           un
                                    tethers

a

woman era

ses  her
                      self
as paper
              was

         ps

make shapes

t    he

            wind

unt       et

      hers

a
         wo

man    era           ses

                     hers

elf

           asp

ape    r

                     was

psm

         akes

               hap est

                           he

               win

               dun t

ether
          s

untethers as wind
              the shapes wasps   make

a paper
      her   woman self
erases

a  woman    untethers                          m

erases   herself                   a

as  wind   wasps                                              k

   shapes the paper                      e

her self    as paper
              the wind   un tethers

a woman
              wasps   make

                              e ra s e  s

                                                s                              s
                                                  h                  e
                                                       a       p

© Shaney Herrmann

Kelly Norah Drukker is a Montréal-based poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press), a collection of poems that won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Petits feux, the French-language translation by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018. Most recently, Kelly’s work has appeared in The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, The Temz Review, Burning House Press (UK), and Rabbit Poetry (Australia). Kelly holds an MA in English and Creative Writing and a PhD in interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University.
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