A new term, The paths glow— the breeze is a rush of exhilaration.
Leafy, muddy Cambridge is still quiet, but their words veer off the path.
I just started the novel Tiepolo Blue, by James Cahill, which I bought because of the title and the swimming pool on the cover. The writing on the first page was so lovely, its phrases so descriptive that it was almost poetry anyway. Is it cheating to use such a source for an erasure poem? A bigger challenge would be to employ, say, the business section of a newspaper, but I took the plunge into the Tiepolo pool anyway. I’m keeping "I" for the poem's title, which is the Roman number I, but you could also read it as the personal pronoun “I” and entertain a little mystery.
More poems and poetry talk from others at the Poetry Friday roundup for May 15th; it’s at Patricia J. Franz’s place.
Poem source: Tiepolo Blue, by James Cahill. Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette UK, 2022.
Yes! I love the mystery of “I” as “a new term.” Feels like renewal, a fresh start, where “paths glow.” And no, it’s not cheating –at least not to me. It’s leaning on fellow poets for making all things new.
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