Witnesses

Dave BontaSad

a great crowd of doors their open mouths for the light like books people speak into

while the bookseller poor man is dead of grief for his losses by fire

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 11 November 1667.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: grief, fire, door, book

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Dave Bonta pictures a crowd of doors, all standing open toward the light, and compares them to books that people speak into. It's a strange, quiet image. The doors seem almost alive, like mouths waiting to say something, or like witnesses, as the title suggests.

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