Clothes moth
a moth and the stories she tells to my closet
her instrument full as a white bell
and out in the void rings another
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 17 January 1669.
Dave Bonta
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a moth and the stories she tells to my closet
her instrument full as a white bell
and out in the void rings another
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 17 January 1669.
In just a few lines, a small, ordinary creature, the clothes moth, becomes something closer to a storyteller or a musician. The speaker imagines her telling "stories" to the closet, as if her tiny movements in the dark were a kind of speech.
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