Kenosis

Dave BontaSad

This morning I hear the prisoners that are to die.

I pay for a picture so heavy, I cannot tell what to do with it.

I fear the natural aptness I have to any cross.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 February 1661/62.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: death, cross, picture, prisoner

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The speaker begins with something unsettling: a morning in which they hear "the prisoners / that are to die." It's left vague. We don't know who these prisoners are or whether the speaker hears them literally or in some imagined way, but the line sets a heavy tone straight away.

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