Chris DePietro

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Poets have     power in words
as in those that rest on the page.     brilliant examples of this

poetry
are fragments.

while another is a single word trapped in
a blizzard
of brackets. The haunting fragments
the poet alters an existing text by striking
independent

compelling

use     the text for an erasure     a moving commentary
shifting fields of language that have arisen

"The Found
Error,"
the preserved words     float down the pages as if in
clouds

this changed world     poetry

a poet
can use any source