Earth Day
I thank her on my knees the world sweeter than milk with her sin and sand her lush dining and discourse with time
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 April 1664.
Dave Bonta
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I thank her on my knees the world sweeter than milk with her sin and sand her lush dining and discourse with time
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 April 1664.
Dave Bonta's "Earth Day" is a four-line gesture of gratitude. The speaker kneels, a posture of prayer or humility, and thanks the earth, who is addressed as "her." The act feels almost religious, though there's no god in sight. The thing being worshipped is the world itself.
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