Grave goods
on ice one evening after a walk in the garden
bury my out-of-tune kettle with me in the hole
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 14 February 1663/64.
Dave Bonta
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on ice one evening after a walk in the garden
bury my out-of-tune kettle with me in the hole
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 14 February 1663/64.
The title borrows a term from archaeology: grave goods are the objects buried with a person for use in the afterlife. Here the speaker imagines their own burial and makes a request that is both odd and tender. They want their out-of-tune kettle buried with them.
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