My erasures were featured.
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I collected debris to sell as crash art,
crush porn.
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“Say goodbye to Lonesome George,” the last Galapagos tortoise.
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I was a pushover for the laws of physics.
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I pictured us as two seals hauled out on a sunny rock,
the roar around us a matter of course
Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout’s most recent book is Safe Rooms (Wesleyan, 2026). Her book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She is professor emerita at UC San Diego and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.