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This is a 21-pass erasure poem, which means it took 21 passes through the source material for this poem to fully emerge.

The source material is a post written by my friend, the poet X. P. Callahan, for her substack Diary Poems. In the comments to her post, she and talked about multi-pass erasures and finding the right material – which, as she noted, can be any material.

I thought it would be twelve passes, but the material thought otherwise.

This one is for you, X. P.

My process notes, cleaned up to be legible, are here. (It’s a glitch in our Drop Box that it shows up as my husband Jody’s work. Always something with the tech.)

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