Erik Fuhrer
sea-wood stumps
(an erasure of T.S. Eliot’s “A Game of Chess” from The Waste Land)
drowned
fattening
sea-wood
stumps
hushing
savagely
rats lost nothing
I
a lidless knock
some teeth
antique
pills
I’ve never been the same
demotic chatter
(an erasure of T.S. Eliot’s “The Fire Sermon” from The Waste Land)
testimony of the departed
bones
chuckle
through
the belly
round my father’s death
rats’ motors
city document
demotic throbbing
homeward chatter
sweats with heavy
dogs
burning
afterlife
(an erasure of T.S. Eliot’s “Death by Water” from The Waste Land)
the dead cry
of bones
whispers
the whirlpool
turn handsome and tall
Erik Fuhrer holds a MFA from the University of Notre Dame and an MLITT in Modernities from the University of Glasgow. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in BlazeVox, Crab Fat Magazine, Noble/Gas Qrtrly, Dream Pop Press, Crack the Spine, and various other venues.