Heather Bowlan

Ghost Crone | Body Horror

An image of a poem: Throat like a knot / something caught, tearing. / The snow's blocked the roads / and the Rhapsody Revue's / in the Gold Room: / She's down in front, / hands under the table...

Self-Care in the Off Season

An erasure of the first poem on the page, text blacked out with the following text remaining: Throat like a knot / hands under the table / busy smile / a gloved hand on / her champagne flute / kisses / on its the rim / the guests arrive / legs...

Tarot Card: The Crone

Another eraure of the previous poem, with some text written in the blanks: She's blocked the roads / wander the halls / follows lonely children / and the man / with a widow's peak / down the patterned carpet / just a frozen hand / just a few kisses..

Heather Bowlan is a writer, critic, and community organizer from Northwest Philadelphia and living in Germantown after time in London, Hilo, Long Beach, and Raleigh, among other places. Her collection of self-erasures and collaborative poems, Highlights & Blackouts, was released by _mixlit press as a chapbook and code poem experience in 2023. Heather’s work has appeared in the anthology Feminisms in Motion, the New Ohio Review, the Anarchist Review of Books, and elsewhere.