“Three Haunted Erasures” (Please follow the link to read the THREE erasure poems). • Please offer your interpretation (and, additionally, your like or dislike) of these poems. Do you have a favorite? Many people take fault with erasure poetry because it feels as if the artist is doing little work by smudging out words by someone else to create their own poem/narrative, but what do you think? And how, if at all, do the poems feel connected? • Consider repetition, specifically of the word “revenge.” How does that change your understanding of the poem and/or the speaker? • Why might these poems lack individual titles? How are these poems “haunted?” What might be the significance of grouping them as three? • How is the second person “you” operating differently in each poem? • What do you imagine the source material for these poems to be? Does it matter (here or in erasure poetry in general)? • Guesthouse’s tagline is “a panoply of modern writing.” How might these poems qualify as modern writing? • How are the endings of the poems structured to feel either open or closed? Did the endings confuse you?