Self-actualization
in sleep I was the skull within me a thing of my own
troubling that this absence makes it strange to die
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 13 July 1665.
Dave Bonta
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in sleep I was the skull within me a thing of my own
troubling that this absence makes it strange to die
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 13 July 1665.
The speaker describes a dream in which they became their own skull, the hard bony shape that sits beneath the face. It's an odd, quietly unsettling image. In sleep, the speaker doesn't just see death's emblem but occupies it, as if it were something that belonged to them alone, "a thing of my own."
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