lux in nubis
a four-pass alchemy with sixteen possibilities
Josh Datko, from his excellent series of antiwar poems, where he says: “I am desecrating war poems with erasures. None deserve it more than W.B. Yeats.”
You may read the lines of this four-pass alchemy in any order—there are sixteen possibilities. One is above. Here are three more:
Source: William Butler Yeats, “An Irish Airman foresees his Death,” which you can read here, where it lies and lies under Josh Datko’s desecration.