Sleepless
foul weather sunk into my left eye
I write all night then to bed
only my hands lie as a weight
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 29 December 1666.
Dave Bonta
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foul weather sunk into my left eye
I write all night then to bed
only my hands lie as a weight
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 29 December 1666.
Sleepless is a tiny snapshot of a bad night and a worse body. The speaker describes "foul weather" that has sunk into the left eye, which sounds like the heaviness and ache of tiredness, as if a storm has settled behind the eyelid.
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