Conversion
every minute of the day will become corn
alone on a dish where I sit in the evening
and give my time to pie and spirits
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 8 July 1663.
Dave Bonta
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every minute of the day will become corn
alone on a dish where I sit in the evening
and give my time to pie and spirits
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 8 July 1663.
The speaker imagines the minutes of an ordinary day being transformed into corn, something small, plain, and edible, set alone on a dish. The title, "Conversion," suggests a change of one thing into another, and here it is time itself that gets converted into food.
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