Drought
fear is the nothing I face in a clock
after looking at it I cannot get anything to take place in my mind
while my yard is drying up
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 9 May 1664.
Dave Bonta
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fear is the nothing I face in a clock
after looking at it I cannot get anything to take place in my mind
while my yard is drying up
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 9 May 1664.
The speaker looks at a clock and finds nothing there to hold onto, only fear. The opening lines make that fear feel strange and specific: it isn't a monster or a threat, it's an emptiness, the blank a person meets when they stare at passing time.
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