Breakup
breaking up the frost on our common hurt
that word go against new leather
fur like a rabbit cowling my foot
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 9 January 1667.
Dave Bonta
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breaking up the frost on our common hurt
that word go against new leather
fur like a rabbit cowling my foot
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 9 January 1667.
The title "Breakup" works two ways at once. It's the cracking of winter ice, and it's the end of a relationship. The poem lets both meanings sit together, so the thaw of the season and the splitting of two people feel like one event.
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