Author’s note: This cut-up poem was created using The Deletionist.com to erase words along with words from the National Nature Report page at the U.S. Global Change Research Program government site.
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Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is an Australian-American writer, songwriter and educator who lived in California for 12 years. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Entropy, Hippocampus, Cordite and Australian Book Review. She has won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Poetry Prizes; and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. In 2024 she was awarded the Red Room Poetry and Mascara Emerging Critics Fellowships. Her second poetry book, If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears, was recently released by Life Before Man/Gazebo Books. Her work is widely anthologised and awarded across Australia and the United States.
