A Sharp Startle

An erasure poem using Nancy Roberts' novel Georgia Ghosts (John F. Blair Publications, 1997)

Christopher Morgan is a Lebanese American prose poet who grew up in Detroit, the Bible Belt of Georgia, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently lives and co-manages Nostrovia! Press. The author of two chapbooks, Shadow Songs (Sad Spell Press, 2015) and Fables with Fangs (Ghost City Press, 2016), his poetry has been published at Gargoyle, A cappella Zoo, Voicemail Poems, Yellow Chair Review and Fruita Pulp, among others. He loves hiking in the redwoods and happy hour margaritas.