Living in hope
visited by desire I have a little fur on my heart and hat
busy busy things my desires are but so honest the cards
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 9 January 1668.
Dave Bonta
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visited by desire I have a little fur on my heart and hat
busy busy things my desires are but so honest the cards
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 9 January 1668.
The speaker is visited by desire, but it doesn't arrive as something grand or dangerous. It comes quietly, and the speaker ends up with "a little fur / on my heart and hat," a soft, slightly funny image that suggests desire as something that clings to you, like animal fur or a bit of lint, both…
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