Prospector
the ear is a trepan the skull must be open for mining
gold and silver noon and night losing a little more of my head
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 28 January 1667.
Dave Bonta
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the ear is a trepan the skull must be open for mining
gold and silver noon and night losing a little more of my head
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 28 January 1667.
The poem turns the act of listening into a kind of drilling. A trepan is a tool for boring a hole in the skull, and the speaker imagines the ear as exactly that: something that cuts its way into the head.
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