Reconstruct Woman, an erasure poem by Kari A. Flickinger

Reconstruct Woman

 

[Attribution: Helen Briggs. “DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on“. BBC News. 17 December 2019. Photograph based on a reconstruction photo by Tom Björklund]

 

Kari A. Flickinger is a poet and freelance editor living in the San Francisco Bay area. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, and the Rhysling Award. She is a reader for Palette Poetry, and a regular contributor to Headline Poetry & Press. She is also an alumna of UC Berkeley. When she is not writing, she can be found singing to her unreasonably large Highlander cat, Bear. Find her: kariflickinger.com @kariflickinger