erasure

 

For the 6th week of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge, the form is erasure.  The poet takes a previously written text and begins to erase text to create a poem. Color or images may be added for a visual effect.

 

I used a page from the book Kansas City Jazz From Ragtime to Bebop--A History by Frank Diggs and Chuck Haddix. I tried to keep the relationship of the words within each line accurate words in the picture, but the spaces between lines are more representative than exact.

 

I enjoyed this form and playing with some photos to go with the poem.  Here is the text:

 

hooked on the blues

 

pecking out blues on the old

upright piano

practiced on the sly

 

Seeing

great territorial bands

inspired to become a musician

 

straggling home in the early morning light

with pockets full of money

 

Finding work scarce

 

stranded in Tulsa

 

auditioning for the piano spot

"I can play those tunes."

 

"Man, we've got a cat here.

 

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