Insensate force for good

// E. Kristin Anderson

This is an erasure poem.
Source: King, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
New York: Pocket, 1999.

          Vacation was just the kitchen
remembering very well        electric
heat       her word      that sound her
dear gesture        a splatter of sugar
actual thinking   every bird   a book
all our sins deliberate—     I believe
in a daughter.