by Jennifer LeBlanc

An erasure of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee From Me”

For screen reader accessibility:

seek
in my chamber.
I have seen
wild
danger
at my hand
a continual
fortune
Twenty times
thin
with
you
It was no dream:
all is turned
strange
since I so am served
I know what he deserved.

Jennifer LeBlanc is the author of Descent, a full-length poetry collection published by Finishing Line Press (2020) and named a Distinguished Favorite in Poetry (2021) by the Independent Press Award. Individual poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Cherry Tree, Consequence, J Journal, and Solstice. Jennifer earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She is a poetry reader for Kitchen Table Quarterly and works at Harvard University.