Author’s Note: These poems are excerpted from my forthcoming book, Erase Genesis. A book-length poem made by repeatedly erasing the first three chapters of Genesis, Erase Genesis reimagines our origins by presenting a new myth, a re-creation myth for climate change. Here is the story of man’s self-imposed exile from Nature, and Nature’s plan to teach him interconnectedness before it is too late. I wanted a natural element to be the agent of redaction, so these are made by hand with watercolors, making each page in the book its own primitive painting. Erase Genesis will be published in early 2026 by Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press.
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