Widower
candlelight on the urn
I hear her song in the highest pitch
and longing for more of her I return to sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 2 January 1666.
Dave Bonta
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candlelight on the urn
I hear her song in the highest pitch
and longing for more of her I return to sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 2 January 1666.
The title tells us the speaker is a widower, and the first image shows why that matters: a candle burning beside an urn, where his wife's ashes seem to be kept. It's a quiet, private scene, close to a small shrine.
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