“The Under World”

Catalina Boutros

“Revised Poem”

Sahana Vinothkumar

The following are poems一plucked out.

Call this the gone, the long, the unlove

year.

The key.

It’s the writing.

The undercurrent

beneath the water of words drowning.

To enhance, 

evoke, 

explore, 

expose 

the truth, 

the voices that have always

been exiled from imagination.

In this we find.

Several of the following are erasure poems, meaning

they’re documents with their pieces plucked out, just as

some will call this the gone year, the long year, the glove

year, the unlove year. The key to constructive一& not

destructive一erasure is to create an extension instead of

an extract. It’s not erasure, but expansion, whereby we 

seek the underwriting, the undercurrent beneath the 

watered surface of words. It is to keep the words from

drowning. Hereby the pen looks to enhance, evoke, 

explore, expose the bodies, the truth, the voices that have

always existed but have been exiled from history & the 

imagination. In this case, we erase to find.

(Erasure – Amanda Gorman)

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