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“I contain” & “Imagine what”

An erasure poem. A page from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is very faintly visible in the background, underneath an image of what looks like sand that's been raked around just a few clear words. The text of the erasure poem says:


I 
contain 
little 
pieces 
for 
To-morrow.
An erasure poem. A page from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is very faintly visible in the background, underneath an image of what looks to be a pink-ish mountain with a blue sky and fluffy white clouds. The text of the erasure poem says:

Imagine what
might be

a little girl
the day 
when 
all
women
fly

Mary Crockett Hill is an Appalachian poet and novelist hailing from the hinterlands of southwestern Virginia. In poetry, she is the author of A Theory of Everything and If You Return Home with Food, and in fiction, How She Died, How I Lived. Mary’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Electric Literature, Best of the Net, and Poetry Daily, among other venues. She teaches at Roanoke College and edits Roanoke Review.

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