Day 30 - "erasure" by enfleshed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus enfleshed - poetry through lent en-us 2021-02-18 22:00:18 UTC 2021-07-06 21:33:20 UTC hello@padlet.com fragments https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342498175 a narrative? a whole story? /
is that even possible when so much was erased /
to protect the memory and shield my soul]]> 2021-03-23 12:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342498175 jmaidrand https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342507668 you and your horse are anchored to the town square, cast in metal yet/
no mention of your people, your history, your land upon which we dwell/
my temporary inhabitance of this place has been my excuse to turn away--three years later and I am still contributing to your erasure]]> 2021-03-23 12:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342507668 Hold That Thought https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342536134 I can tell stories of my many-times-great grandmothers because someone else will never know hers.]]> 2021-03-23 12:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342536134 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342571959 Life is too precious:
You’re too priceless to ignore. 
You ARE visible. ]]> 2021-03-23 12:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1342571959 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343019903 I’m not sure what’s being erased, or what needs to be. 
Erase hate. Erase racism. Erase capitalism. Erase white supremacy. Erase cages and dividing walls. Erase the patriarchy and capitalism. 
Erase my sin. Erase my inaction. Erase my selfishness. Erase my fear. 

]]> 2021-03-23 14:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343019903 Erasure https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343530183
God forgave us all,
Erasing our trespasses,
Nailed to the cross.

Colossians 2:13-14

WDRplus]]> 2021-03-23 15:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343530183 Erasure https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343692488 Sins of ancestors 
Bloody shameful history 
They don’t teach in school ]]> 2021-03-23 15:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343692488 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343886219 I walk by but am a ghost. A ghost even to myself. ]]> 2021-03-23 16:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1343886219 A woman must be silent. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345145115 A woman must be submissive.
A woman must be erased. 

]]> 2021-03-23 20:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345145115 Complicity https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345253698 My brother said it offhandedly, that our ancestors had owned people.

I should have known, they were southern, some of them bankers, people of means.

Sometimes I rage about injustice, superior in my understanding, my purity, and have to look deeply again, remember my complicity, humble myself.]]> 2021-03-23 21:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345253698 Fat https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345356126 I didn’t understand how uncomfortable my body made people, how automatically they erased me from reality, until I became someone else’s idea of pretty.

No, I am not “new here.” You’ve seen me every week for three years.

Except, of course, you haven’t.]]> 2021-03-23 22:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345356126 Gimme Nuance https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345360101 In the rush to be right, we left the Light. / In the choosing of sides, I'm left behind. / In the rush to judgement, forgot why we were sent.]]> 2021-03-23 22:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345360101 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345415929 What's been done 
What's been said 
What's been thought 
Can never be undone, unsaid, unthought...
Except through total erasure by the most holy one - through His grace, through His love, through His forgiveness.
Through His willing surrender to the cross. ]]> 2021-03-23 22:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345415929 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345741418 Something done can't be undone
Something spoken can't be unspoken 
Something thought can't be unthought 
Until, unless the deed, the word, the idea is totally, compassionately,selflessly erased on the cross.]]> 2021-03-24 00:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1345741418 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1346119380 My Lenten practice starts strong 

Then: erasure. Next thing I know... 

next week is Holy Week?
]]> 2021-03-24 03:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1346119380 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1346122186 I have erased the joy from much of my personal highlight reel
Frustratingly fixated on hardships and hurts
Incapable of celebrating myself
]]> 2021-03-24 03:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1346122186 erasure https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1347006785 Wipe out the hard lines that separate;
allow the lines in the body;
that teach acceptance of soft beauty.
HilaryC]]> 2021-03-24 09:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1347006785 Erasure https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1347083635
My tongue does not do as I wish it would.

Raised speaking English, I stumble through

The words of Kerala that I would speak if I could.

dm]]> 2021-03-24 09:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1347083635 Lost https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1350751514 With the recent passing of my father
Another link to my ancestors is now gone
The echoes from the past are becoming more incoherent]]> 2021-03-25 01:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1350751514 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1360425792 Where do you find yourself? In picture,
story, song. Or in between the lines,
in the crowded spaces where nobody lives. ]]> 2021-03-27 21:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/7gitdg6bgvfpqlus/wish/1360425792