Closeted
shut up in my little closet a wing your desiring mouth
who makes me stand so much that I am ashamed to dance
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 1 December 1665.
Dave Bonta
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shut up in my little closet a wing your desiring mouth
who makes me stand so much that I am ashamed to dance
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 1 December 1665.
Dave Bonta's "Closeted" is a very short poem about feeling hidden away and held back by desire. The speaker pictures themselves "shut up in my little closet," a cramped, private space that suggests secrecy or hiding, though the poem never says exactly what is being hidden.
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