"little plum": erasure poems

These erasures are from two facing pages of Little Plum, a young adult book published by Rumer Godden in 1962.

                                    messages

         happen.
               Miss Flower’s bowls and tea
                           happen.

teas sets,
cups,       bowls.


                           (a Japanese
                 teapot.)

 “Japanese people seem to have tea with
everything – green tea – I can make that
with paint water.”

                                       (shiny black
                                         lacquer

                            bowls.)

II.

                           dolls are used to having

dollhouse food   
             the size of half your little fingernail.

                    each bowl held rice,

                                      fish as small as ants,

                 silver in        red sauce     (Japanese

people are very fond fish
  vegetable,
                          cake,
                sugar.         There were chop-
sticks made from pine needles.

                                     the tea was hot.   

                the teapot    

looked                                      real.