Erased Land ·

FIND ANOTHER

This image displays a blackout poem created on a page of heavy text. The background is painted in heavy black strokes, mimicking the wood of the image of a stable which has been pasted onto the page. Select words have been left visible to form a poem against the backdrop of a farm house, trees, and a cloudy sky.

By MiRan Powell

FIND ANOTHER

Yes find another
who returns to
the stables
the coach-house the orchard
the plantation
the nursery
the new wing face
it
When time comes—
The hidden the spectres
what 
seem to give
this cheerful
homecoming
what
medicine
carry on

As a rule

when lost

talk about it
believe wish
call it nothing

to lose anybody
in the middle of a storm,
never to recover
from
permanently missing.