Kenosis
arson made a melancholy church
full of ash and the poor sermon of the rain
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 9 September 1666.
Dave Bonta
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arson made a melancholy church
full of ash and the poor sermon of the rain
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 9 September 1666.
In just a few lines, the poem pictures a church that has been burned down, leaving only ash. The speaker doesn't tell us who set the fire or why. Instead, the focus falls on the aftermath: a place once meant for worship now filled with something dead and grey.
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