Love

Erasure poem from page 101 of "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto (Grove Press, 1992.) It reads:

"love, it
shook
my     little bell"

The other words are obscured by stitching in red and gray thread.
Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. Grove Press. 1992. 

Sarah J Sloat divides her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works in news. Her poems, collage and prose have appeared in The Offing, Sixth Finch and Diagram, among other journals. A book of her visual poetry will be published by Sarabande Books in 2020.