Illustrated man
summer’s silk suit talking to my fur
am I tapestry the pictures I itch to be
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 29 September 1667.
Dave Bonta
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summer’s silk suit talking to my fur
am I tapestry the pictures I itch to be
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 29 September 1667.
The title points to a tattooed body, though the poem never says so outright. It opens with a strange image: "summer's silk suit" talking to the speaker's "fur." Summer seems to be dressing the speaker, perhaps in warm light, heat, or bare skin, and that outer layer is somehow in conversation with…
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