Palimpsest

^{_{Erasure Poem #69, acrylic & gel pen on paper, Sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir 2023 / Text Source: Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh, p.169}}

Crushed

^{_{Erasure Poem #135, gel pen on paper, Sketchbooks 2024, © N Nazir 2024}}

eyes of the prophetess

theatre of the fallen

night oblivion

bullet songs

bad dreams

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Paris Poems (ii)

_{^{Erasure Poem #101, watercolour and gel pen on paper, Sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir / Text Source: The First Man by Albert Camus, p.33}}

Paris arrives like a splendid wave
recovers a secret
plunging one into a porthole of promise

the slender darkness butts in
love lies in wait

everywhere is damp and watering
certainty dashes out
as quickly as it came

Stance

^{_{Erasure poem #123, watercolour & various pens on paper, Sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir}}

how beautiful it is,
the modest seemliness
of shoulders

*originally shared on Insta for Escapril poem-a-day challenge, prompt 11: posture, and also for NaPoWriMo Prompt 11: to create a monostich poem / one-liner poem.

*Text source: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, p.150.

A Foraged Poem

_{^{Erasure Poem #62, acrylic & gel pen on paper, sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir}}

the naming of my [death]
the parenthesis of my [sex]
the blab of art,
of hurrahs and jokes,
roused and sunstruck,
the sudden vibrating howls
of adulterous lips

*

*Don’t ask me what this poem’s about, I couldn’t tell you. It’s an exercise in automatic poem-making. No doubt any poem/art reveals something about its creator, so possibly this one means I’m a little disturbed or disturbing.

*Text source was from A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr, but I’ve no idea what page as I painted over it.