Offering
I took water to the sea in my hands.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 13 November 1660.
Dave Bonta
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I took water to the sea in my hands.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 13 November 1660.
Three short lines describe a strange, almost silly act: the speaker brings water to the sea, and does it by cupping it in their hands. The sea hardly needs more water, so the gesture can't be about usefulness. That's where the poem gets its quiet force.
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