Match
In my pocket, a match, a hand. In his pocket, the fire.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 2 November 1661.
Dave Bonta
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In my pocket, a match, a hand. In his pocket, the fire.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 2 November 1661.
The poem sets two pockets side by side, and the whole meaning comes from how unequal they are. In the speaker's pocket there is a match and a hand: a small, single-use object and the body part that would have to strike it.
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