a poem in my pocket

Joining dVerse Poets and Victoria’s “erasure poem” prompt.  I took mine from a non-fiction Maters of Art book, The Story of Architecture, by Francesco Milo.

feudal lords
built castles to
protect against
barbarians assailing

timber stockade
consisting of mound
palisade and ditch
motte-and-bailey castle

mighty stone towers or
keeps designed in
combination of gate-
house and outer wall

fortified residences
feudal nobility dwell
in relative safety
houses huddle

around in village
walled formidably
then advent of
artillery and cannon

…Carcassonne!