Divide and consider
a day to write backward so it becomes another day
a cake cut into pieces as many as the moon in fine frost
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 6 January 1669.
Dave Bonta
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a day to write backward so it becomes another day
a cake cut into pieces as many as the moon in fine frost
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 6 January 1669.
Dave Bonta's short poem works by quiet suggestion rather than plain statement. It begins with an odd idea: a day set aside "to write backward," so that it turns into "another day." Writing backward could mean literally reversing words, or it could mean looking back, revisiting memory and letting…
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