burnt embers

an erasure of a passage from Robert Fitzgerald's translation

by HANNAH DIGGS


            burnt

           embers



          scattered fast





      heaving


                       bleating            practiced
                 it


    poured
         until
                                                                        fire
heaping                                          saw us



                  wandering rogues


We felt
                                              mighty


                                               blown

homeward bound



                                                destroyed