Tag: found poetry
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Slant (a Golden Shovel, after Dickinson — “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”)
A Golden Shovel built from Dickinson’s own line — eight lines of quiet grief and self-deception, where the mask of “I’m fine” cracks just once to admit how much someone is missed. Eight lies in service of one plain truth hiding in plain sight.
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REDACTED: What the Public Record Refuses to Say
What survives the marker is never neutral. Between signatures, footnotes, and approved language, human breath lingers—flattened but warm—refusing to disappear from the public record. #ErasurePoetry #REDACTED #BlackoutPoem #SilencedVoices #PebbleGalaxy