Issue
from the river a cold body
from each flower a fruit a perfect stranger
from me no one
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 27 August 1663, written while listening to Entheos.
Dave Bonta
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from the river a cold body
from each flower a fruit a perfect stranger
from me no one
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 27 August 1663, written while listening to Entheos.
The poem's title, "Issue," works in two ways: something that flows out of a source, and a child, as in "to die without issue." The three short stanzas play on both meanings. A river gives rise to a cold body, which might be a drowned person or simply a chill current.
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