Ode to the Eraser
Here’s my praise
for all the ways you
clean the page
change the date obliterate
the marks we make that
we misgauge
you hard-pressed give your own skin
a sacrifice to
slip or spiel
and take it on the
chin again
Dede Wilson‘s seven poetry collections include Glass (finalist, Persephone Press Award); Sea of Small Fears (winner, Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition); One Nightstand; Eliza: The New Orleans Years; and Mrs. H. and Her Tooty-Falooty Ways, all from Main Street Rag; Near Waking (Finishing Line Press); and Under the Music of Blue (FutureCycle Press). Her work has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Spoon River, Carolina Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tar River, Southern Poetry Review, Tampa Review, Cream City Review, The Lyric, Poet Lore, and many other journals.