#found poetry

Helped out this sweet chunk of flotsam with the aid of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (and found a few poems in glass and brick, too). 12th Street Beach, Chicago.

“A.P.”

Brick from Museum campus (Chicago, IL).

“GO / A,” from 12th St. Beach, Chicago

Bricks from 12th Street Beach (Chicago, IL).

“X ROYAL,” from Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC.

“ON CO/LF,” and “I-OEL” from 12th St. Beach, Northerly Island, Chicago.

April poems including “I CHICA” and “ARR” from 12th St. Beach at Northerly Island (Chicago, IL).

“OF T,” and “obey” and “OWICI-CEL” from 12th Street Beach, Chicago, IL.

— l.h.

bodytalk, erasure from a page of Pomona Herefordiensis

crystal, or “don’t marry just because you’re lonely, goodness sake.” erased from this horrible little number in the NYT a friend was gracious enough to link.

true romance, a poem erased from the British GQ article of the same name, detailing Megan Fox and MGK’s relationship (x)

a spiritual successor to my Bad Art Friend pieces, of sorts. there’s something so…car crash, so train derailment, about people who are completely self-absorbed and oblivious to it, and absorbed in a completely wrong image to boot. I couldn’t resist.

muse aspirant, poem erased from the NYT “bad art friend” article

cusp, erasure from the preface of Pomona Herefordiensis

genesis, erasure from the preface of Pomona Herefordiensis

Unavailable images.

ThroughoutThe Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music by Phillip Paul Bliss (1871). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 30, 2007.

“ForLord, read Logos,” and “For wrote, read wrought.”

Errata slip photographed over text.

From p. iii of The Extraordinary Affliction and Gracious Relief of a Little Boy (1822). No metadata about date digitized available; contains Stanford University library stamps.