An erasure poem is created by taking existing text, erasing or highlighting portions of that text and creating a poem out of the leftover words. For this erasure poem, I used the book Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species, edited by Peter H. Kahn Jr. and Patricia H. Hasbach. I have read quite a bit on ecopsychology and this was not my favorite book on the subject, so I was glad to find a way to make use of the text. The text of the poem will be typed out following the pictures from my notebook.
To generate a way of speaking deeply Your eyes met the animal. The interaction can be endless. Encountering a rattlesnake rattling is different every time, under the night, traveling the edges of sunrise and sunset.
I am awake in this uncomfortable terrain.
To make sacred the wind, the breath of the pilgrim gathers the silhouette of the swirling clouds. Movement through landscape is a constant gesture of reciprocity. It is humbling to pray for the earth. Hearing is beautiful. We are dazzling hunters of the wild.
A night is heard. It brings strange stirrings to some who have been asleep. Track marks occur in many ways. Frogs, and sunsets, and trees continuously cue the rhythm of sleeping.
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