Correspondence
White and char go letters in war to stop time. But we dine on ice.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 10 December 1661.
Dave Bonta
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White and char go letters in war to stop time. But we dine on ice.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 10 December 1661.
In just a few short lines, the poem pictures letters sent in wartime, and the picture is stark: "white and char." The white is the blank page, the char is what burns or blackens, whether ink, ash, or something destroyed. Together they suggest paper that carries both hope and damage.
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