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Jaccottet
@jaccottet.bsky.social
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writer, artist, cultural scavenger

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https://www.patreon.com/c/Jaccottet

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an erasure #tanka:

sorry italy
don’t ask me to explain but
laser year before
plots thwarted we’d love to help
you looking to sound insane

[Oct 2024, pg 061/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem #italy
Page torn from a hardcover best-seller novel. All the text has been erased with white-out, except for the following poem: sorry italy don’t ask me to explain but laser year before plots thwarted we’d love to help you looking to sound insane
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #haiku:

after something turned
we tried to hide in my brain
the night the needle

[Sep 2024, pg 060/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
erasure #haiku duet, in collaboration w/ Claudia Cristalli:

morning around ten
----------------------------photographs sat up
the pictures of dispassion
made me close my eyes
----------------------------my memory was color
----------------------------smoothly strewn about

[Sep 2024, pg 059/406]
Page 59 torn from a hardcover novel. All the text has been erased with white-out, except for this pair of haiku: morning around ten ---------------------------photographs sat up the pictures of dispassion made me close my eyes ---------------------------my memory was color ---------------------------smoothly strewn about
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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a wine-stained-page erasure #tanka:

you and you can see
we’ve been screaming out for night
i fear my daydreams
nightmares calling from my ear
we broke into a run home

[Sep 2024, pg 058/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem #dreams
Page 58 torn from a hardcover novel; there are red wine stains along the top third of the page. All of the text has been erased with white-out, except for the following tanka: you and you can see we’ve been screaming out for night i fear my daydreams nightmares calling from my ear we broke into a run home
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #tanka:

reagan around midnight
wrung out walked through largely empty
cnn broadcasting
crying fashion bigwig
so tired, half listening

[Nov 2025, pg 205/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poetry #booksky #poem
page 205 ripped from a hardcover novel--all the words are erased with white-out, except for this tanka poem: reagan around midnight wrung out walked through largely empty cnn broadcasting crying fashion bigwig so tired, half listening
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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#bloomington #indiana
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #poem:

I'm sad
I need to explore good souls
no doubt I’ll take the nitty-gritty
the bottom other two at the so low
our own in parallel
made mistakes? big ones

[Sep 2024, pg 052/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poetry #booksky
Page torn from a hardcover novel. All words are erased with white-out except for the following six-ling poem: I'm sad I need to explore good souls no doubt I’ll take the nitty-gritty the bottom other two at the so low our own in parallel made mistakes? big ones
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #tanka:

pictures of story
tell about the space between
heavy pack of lives
the world a writer’s method
emotional center stirred

[Sep 2024, pg 050/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel
A page torn from a hardcover novel. All words have been erased with white-out except for the following five-line poem: pictures of story tell about the space between heavy pack of lives the world a writer’s method emotional center stirred
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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an erasure #haiku:

rented for writing
selling imagination
nine-foot-high murders

[pg 049/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
a page torn out of a hardcover novel with all the words erased with white-out except for this haiku: rented for writing selling imagination nine-foot-high murders
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #haiku:

business conquers them
victims would not be humans
pretty when broken

[pg 048/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
page torn from a hardcover novel with all words erased with white-out except for the following haiku: business conquers them victims would not be humans pretty when broken
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
making some square #stickers today

#poetry #eatitup #nutrients #highinfiber #lowinbullshit
a square sticker with the words "eat more poetry" on an orange and yellow background
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
an erasure #haiku:

her portfolio
lover subsidiaries
her brand broke my heart

[pg 046/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post for full project]

#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
Page 46 torn from a hardcover novel, with all the text erased with whiteout except for the following haiku: her portfolio lover subsidiaries her brand broke my heart
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"Restoring the United States Art of War"

Executive Order -- Sep 5, 2025

On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington won the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II, inspiring awe and confidence in our Nation's military, and ensuring freedom and prosperity for all Americans.
September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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An important executive erasure order from Dear Leader Dump:

"Executive Order -- September 22, 2025

The United States government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law use illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide."

[1/3]
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
from PAPYRUS, by Irene Vallejo

#booksky
September 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
overkill information
knights of the deep data
ingenious and monstrous

[pg 171/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post]

#erasure #poem #poetry #bookart #booksky #bestseller #thriller #novel #jamespatterson
page from a hard cover book with all the text whited-out, except for the following poem: overkill information knights of the deep data ingenious and monstrous
September 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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black #caturday
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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screenshot from the 1978 Bowie concert linked below
September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Petroleum Lobbyist,
an erasure tanka:

devoted to work
seeing blooming displeasure
smiling dirty air
how would you garden trouble
sharp as you i shouldn’t weed

[pg 032/406 of my erasure book project--see pinned post]

#erasure #poem #tanka #poetry #bookart #booksky
September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Page 169 (of 406):

i have always prided myself on my

sanctimonious ass

in the name of business

[see pinned post for full project]

#booksky #erasure #poetry #writing #not #quite #a #haiku
Page 169 torn from a hardcover thriller novel, with all the words erased with white-out except for this three-line poem: i have always prided myself on my sanctimonious ass in the name of business
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
Page 166 (of 406):

ended
a large open
world

#booksky #erasure #poetry #writing
September 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
I've been wanting to do a one-word erasure poem for a while

smiletire

I like how it looks on the page, and I enjoy saying it slowly

#erasurepoetry #booksky #writing #poem
Page 160 torn from a hardcover novel, with all the words erased with white-out except for two words, forming a new compound: smiletire
August 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I've begun playing around with fairy tale retellings and translations. Here's the first one I've shared; it's an embellishment of "Hans My Hedgehog," the Brothers Grimm tale published in 1815. You can read it here:

www.patreon.com/posts/135946...

#fairytale #brothersgrimm #writing #booksky
August 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
Page 158, a haiku:

fumbling for a god
my mother told me to dig
dirty the dream of being

*See this and two other new erasure haiku/tanka here:

www.patreon.com/posts/135397...

#booksky #poetry #writing #erasure
July 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
jaccottet.bsky.social
RELICT

A word I just learned from this morning’s reading—an essay on Middle English dialects by Marilyn Corrie

#words #etymology #booksky
Definition of: 'relict' is: 'Ecology. a species or community living in an environment that has changed from that which is typical for it.'.
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM