Under Construction

  • Eve as a tree

    Eve as a tree

    An old school erasure.

    Materials and tools used include colored pencils, buff corrective tape, white corrective fluid, black pen, tape, the image of an apple, and the inversion of an image.



    Ink drawing of a tree, seemingly upside down, with an apple off to the right side.  The apple has a bite taken out of it.


    Sources: W. S. Merwyn “Unchopping a Tree” and Untitled by Milton Glaser


  • UTHRA

    UTHRA

    A three-pass erasure poem







    One translation of UTHRA is “divine messenger of the light.” There are others here.

    The source material is “Cutthroat” by my friend and collaborator the poet MK Francisco. What collaboration, you ask? Stay tuned. And stay patient.



    Process note for the curious:

  • do not interpret

    do not interpret

    a three-pass, three-poem erasure for Deborah Kelly







    These three erasure poems come from the same source material: Name it Nothing by my dear friend Deborah Kelly.



  • Accept the equinox

    Accept the equinox

    coming September 22, 2025



    Source material for the end of summer is here.



  • War Song

    War Song

    A three times sourced erasure poem:



    Source text, “War Sonnet” by Jessica Roeder.



    Process note for the curious:

  • Bravo Dragon

    Bravo Dragon


    Source material about the Dragon Bravo fire here.

    More about the Dragon Bravo fire here.

    More about the Grand Canyon here.

    More fire everywhere.



  • The K Files – coming attractions

    The K Files – coming attractions

    an off-cycle post for X.P.

    Photo of a street sign with a tiny plastic baby underneath it.

    The original K Files can be found here, on X. P. Callahan’s excellent Diary Poems.



  • Bees Stir the Mirror

    Bees Stir the Mirror

    A three times sourced erasure poem:



    Source text as process note for the curious:

  • Declination

    Declination

    The poem:



    The source.



    The translation:



    How the poem emerged from the source: