Second sight
my glass eye gives me hope
that I may find no dull old-fashioned thing
that nobody could unsee
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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my glass eye gives me hope
that I may find no dull old-fashioned thing
that nobody could unsee
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 June 1668
The speaker has a glass eye, and the poem turns that fact into a strange kind of optimism. A glass eye can't really see, so the title, "Second sight," points two ways at once: a replacement for lost vision, and the older idea of seeing what ordinary eyes miss.
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