Anchorite
A great blessing to put an end to hopes of getting more. The sea is clear— and I am clear to the sea.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 28 November 1660.
Dave Bonta
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A great blessing to put an end to hopes of getting more. The sea is clear— and I am clear to the sea.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 28 November 1660.
The speaker calls it "a great blessing" to stop hoping for more. That's an unusual way to think about it, since we tend to treat hope as a good thing. Here, though, hope looks like a kind of restlessness, a constant reaching for something that isn't there yet.
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