Sublimation
water back to ice and ice to air
being no green man I journey in our own garden
a bed in our part of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 6 May 1669.
Dave Bonta
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water back to ice and ice to air
being no green man I journey in our own garden
a bed in our part of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 6 May 1669.
The title is a science word: sublimation is when a solid turns straight into gas, skipping the liquid stage. The poem opens by running water's cycle in an odd direction, water back to ice, and ice to air, as if things are being undone or thinned out until they nearly vanish.
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