Outgrowth
within the morning a cell and all the afternoon in it
as midnight cries bring forth a child
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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within the morning a cell and all the afternoon in it
as midnight cries bring forth a child
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 July 1668
Three short lines at the start set up a strange, compressed picture: a whole morning contains a single cell, and the entire afternoon sits inside that cell. Time keeps shrinking inward, like nesting boxes.
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