(after Mark Truscott & Bliss Carman) Note: This is an erasure poem, created by erasing words from a poem on Tecumseh by the late Canadian poet Bliss Carman, circa 1926.

Note: These poems are part of an ongoing sequence that takes its inspiration from William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell.”  The poems in the sequence range from homage to interpretation to riffs that use the proverbs as a point of departure.