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Sonja Johanson

Walking Away

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Resurrection
all around
the only person
saying
sense
closed her eyes and

headed down the stairs.

 

erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg. 210
simple leaves, Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus


Log Run

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he had
forgotten
the river
a soundless torrent
came down through
his dreams
he thought of
blue
He pictured
floods
which so often saved him

 

erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg. 20
stipe and rachis segments from fertile fronds, Bracken Fern, Pteridium aquilinum


Functional Extinction

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what comes naturally after someone dies
the door

          closed,                         the                 view
explained
How dreadful
conversation
the
clue
         we                                                   don’t   want
to know.

 

erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg. 230
leaf margins, American Chestnut, Castanea dentata


Confession

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The burning green
some dim
wound
awkward      unloved
shameful
lusting after
forgiveness
and
lantana

 

erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg.50
florets, Confetti Spreading Lantana, Lantana x “Moni”


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