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Tag: erasure poetry

Decorated with ideographs

February 24, 2021February 15, 2021 Constance Bourg
Decorated with ideographs they flooded the ground scarlet, a matchbox house allowed to vanish.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged blackout poetry, Collage, erasure poetry, mixed media art, mixed media collage, Poetry, the summer book, tove jansson

Bones come at sundown

February 12, 2021February 3, 2021 Constance Bourg
White or gray, thin as needles or like the timbers of a shipwreck, bones come at sundown.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged chronic illness, Collage, erasure poetry, longcovid, ME/CFS, Poetry

It rises; it dies

January 29, 2021January 27, 2021 Constance Bourg
It rises, it doesn't rise, it dies; a wilderness of growth entwined in battle or in love.
It rises, it doesn’t rise, it dies; a wilderness of growth entwined in battle or in love.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged chronic illness, Collage, erasure poetry, longcovid, ME/CFS, Poetry, the summer book, tove jansson

Whitened beauty

January 20, 2021January 16, 2021 Constance Bourg
Here terrible stumps of whitened beauty splintered and cracked, until she lay down and looked up through the network of gray lichen and branches and slept a while.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged chronic illness, Collage, erasure poetry, Poetry, the summer book, tove jansson

Balance

January 9, 2021January 6, 2021 Constance Bourg2 Comments
It tried to grow directly into the teeth of every storm, crouched and twisted, the balance between survival and extinction so delicate.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged chronic illness, Collage, erasure poetry, isolation poetry, longcovid, ME/CFS, Poetry, the summer book, tove jansson

Happy New Year

January 1, 2021January 3, 2021 Constance Bourg3 Comments
White-out collage on a page of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. It shows an open door with yellow light shining from beyond.
They said the door is always open on to the horizon.

This post is part of my book-long erasure poetry and collage project on Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.

Posted in Collage, PoetryTagged altered book, Collage, erasure poetry, Poetry, the summer book, tove jansson

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