It's Still Life

Burnt

He was left on the beach.
Legs sunburn.

Red blotches.
Thighs. His feet.

He pushed a finger
into his thigh.

It turned stark white,
then angry red.

The sun rolled white
on the sand.

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Wikiart. image Ulysses by Milton Resnick, 1991. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Text sourced from Jaws, by Benchley, Peter. Digital Jaws. Pub. Pan 70, 2017.

Definition: Erasure poetry, also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion of the text, creating a wholly new work from what remains. My method involved layers, changing the top layer’s opacity, and then erasing parts of that image to reveal text from the lower layer/page of text. All 30-days can be viewed on Tumblr at https://miskyb.tumblr.com 

More info: https://poets.org/glossary/erasure