Erasure Poems

How much fun is it to erase? To create a poem by slowly cutting away at the text? This website offers an interactive page that allows poems to emerge with the click of a mouse: http://www.wavepoetry.com/erasures/

At my workshop this week we used Shakespeare's sonnets, a great source text because there is a poem between every line, every word.

Result; erasure from sonnet 90

Then hate me. now

while the world is bent.

do not come in

not a windy night, a rainy morrow

leave me. petty griefs.

the very worst

of might. of woe