Legacy
a rose bearing all is my mother’s estate
deducting out the green for air only
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 27 May 1666.
Dave Bonta
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a rose bearing all is my mother’s estate
deducting out the green for air only
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 27 May 1666.
In just a few lines, the speaker says that everything their mother left behind comes down to a single rose. The word "legacy" in the title leads us to expect money or property, but the poem offers something small, living and delicate instead.
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