Three Erasure Pieces

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alienation echo

The
inadequacy of language
is extended
where words are a refuge

retreat to the wilderness

fairy tales and
history
the duplicity of language
fiction, developing a series
of love triangles.

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Competing with
churches for
the imagination of
present-day

The
[arrow to:] great cathedrals
renewed interest in
[an arrow bypasses the text:
what was often,
harsh and
superficial symmetry
of the
money, skills, and materials,
to point to:] changes:
The
new and sophisticated exploitation of such
decorative
trimmings whose origins
changes in the way people lived
went back
to the
tidy,
simple
[arrow to:] iron-framed
[arrow to:] matrix of
[arrows bypass the text:
crystal palaces around
altered and moved]
austere and blind
tradition.

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metamorphosis
(chrysalis)

overwintering: pass the winter in
mourning
and
flowering

the
mission

consume
dragonflies
the many
prey
the victory
the honey
the exis-
tence