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Erased Erin Murphy (bio) Erin Murphy, poem, erasure poem, Champlain Towers, Surfside, collapse Created from the text of a July 3, 2021 Washington Post article on the planned demolition of the collapsed Champlain Towers condominium in Surfside, Florida What is left is fragile.Wind, rain, and fire move faster. A costis coming to the coast— flooding, wreckage, disaster.Can we make revisions to a month, a day,a morning—collapse time, the need to bein motion? Hope, memory, everyonewe know—that is what's left, what's leftto implode. [End Page 114] Erin Murphy ERIN MURPHY's latest book, Human Resources, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, the Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2021 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award, she is poetry editor of the Summerset Review and a professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Copyright © 2022 University of North Carolina Wilmington
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