Carnival
if I could I would pay the sea
carrying messages from my other life
my other mouth told me to take joy and not be quiet
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 August 1664.
Dave Bonta
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if I could I would pay the sea
carrying messages from my other life
my other mouth told me to take joy and not be quiet
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 August 1664.
The speaker begins with a strange, generous wish: if they could, they would pay the sea. The reason is that the sea carries messages from "my other life," a life that feels close but out of reach. The sea becomes a kind of messenger, bringing news across a distance the speaker can't cross alone.
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