Closure
doors within doors make the world dark
but this is a fallacy I have found no void
but a new writ full as a book of glass
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 August 1664.
Dave Bonta
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doors within doors make the world dark
but this is a fallacy I have found no void
but a new writ full as a book of glass
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 August 1664.
The poem begins with a feeling of enclosure. Doors open onto more doors, and that endless nesting seems to turn the world dark. The title, "Closure," fits this idea: things shut, one after another, with no way through.
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