Presence
the swan of absence died having too much world
I miss his absenting himself from his place full of down
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 17 May 1665.
Dave Bonta
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the swan of absence died having too much world
I miss his absenting himself from his place full of down
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 17 May 1665.
Two short couplets, and a strange idea at the center: absence itself has a body, a swan, and that swan has died. The poem says it died "having too much world," as if even nothingness can be overwhelmed by existence. That is a odd, quietly funny thought, and also a sad one.
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