Besitted
in the garden of my desire I sit with a cloud
heavy as a church as an office as a quiet fool
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 23 December 1667.
Dave Bonta
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in the garden of my desire I sit with a cloud
heavy as a church as an office as a quiet fool
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 23 December 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Besitted" puts the speaker in a strange, quiet spot: the garden of his own desire, where he sits beside a cloud. A garden usually suggests growth and pleasure, so you might expect something lush. Instead, the company he keeps is heavy and still.
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