#the poeming

[pixiepromptspoemflaunts]

April 14: empty bottles holding our paper ghost

Source: a blackout culled from page 75- Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Wordsworth Editions, 1993.

[poeming-with-dracula-in-2025]

April 8

[immaculatenothing]

October 2, 2024: I'm too close to You

keeping twice the silence —

No electricity ;

i am a dying light.

you'll see another strand of change

winding in the dark

away

quietly

so quick

away and free

down the hallway

to the window

and out

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Erasure/found poem. Source text: The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. (Blackstone Edition, Ashland, OR, 2024, pp. 6-8.)

[jessmeetsbram]

THE MESSENGER: Day Two of The Poeming

a cormorant on the wind

never forgets a wish

between a dear friend and the night

perhaps all oceans privileged to know

these happy pledges

trust only them to tell

sweet promises to the sun

By Jess Capelle

Erasure remix of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, p. 128, Dover Bookshelf Edition

[thestepfordwivespoemingoctober]

[asignalofautumn]

Except a bloody chaotic galumphing*,

the uniquely crooked was fine,

was, of course, only looking

plastic and immaculate.

Isn’t immaculate, of course.

Was plastic, of some kind.

Today, isn’t that. Why?

It got boring after a while,

was time to be real

and have a full life—

a very full life.

*Has galumphing been used as a noun before? If not I propose it.

Poem 4

Process: Erasure

Source: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: New York, 1972. 45-49.

[mouthful-of-blood]

April 28: the house-cat diaries

the kitten is playful,

eagerness present.

the cat is a homicidal maniac

found poem from Stoker, Bram. Dracula. og 60