Vessel

Dave BontaContemplative

whither the body which I am now

the coffee-house of passion the stairs down to nothing

the head and meat like a silver pen to carry ink in

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 5 August 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: passion, body, ink, vessel

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Bonta's short poem is a speaker looking at their own body and wondering what it is. The opening line, "whither the body," asks where it is heading, while "which I am now" admits that the body isn't just something owned but something the speaker is, at least for the moment.

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