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The dream becomes dangerous

Image shows an erasure poem by Sarah Nichols. The text is crossed through with silver marker, and the poem words are circled with red pen and connected with pen lines. Cut out images are pasted around the double-page layout, including a pair of eyes with no face, a ghost-like figure pointing a finger to the right, a black-cloaked figure, and a framed image of a white hand.

  the dream becomes

dangerous

its secrets

                  relive

                  the

                  me of

                  1981

the

      exalted

                  escape

                the

                numb

                         offering

a haunting

                          announcing—

I began making notes

Erasure from The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, New York: Knopf, 2023, Print.

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Sarah Nichols lives and writes in Connecticut. She is the author of eleven chapbooks of poetry and nonfiction, including These Violent Delights (Grey Book Press, 2022) and Press Play for Heartbreak (Paper Nautilus Press, 2021).

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