Piecemeal

Dave BontaContemplative

early in the morning last night’s work is in pieces

the work of joy clothes us in nowhere

out and gone I shall come no more to pray

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 June 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: joy, morning, prayer, work

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Morning arrives, and whatever the speaker made or did the night before has fallen apart. "In pieces" suggests something broken or unfinished, though the poem never says exactly what the work was. That openness is part of its pull.

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