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a moth at the fire begins to see
I sit with my bones unread like impossible letters
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 11 June 1666.
Dave Bonta
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a moth at the fire begins to see
I sit with my bones unread like impossible letters
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 11 June 1666.
Two small images sit side by side here, and the poem lets them quietly comment on each other. In the first, a moth by a fire "begins to see." We usually think of moths as drawn blindly toward flame, so the idea that the fire gives it sight is a surprise.
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