Missing
all my hopes are eaten by a moth with no mouth
but guns do not grieve or think to miss
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 6 February 1667.
Dave Bonta
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all my hopes are eaten by a moth with no mouth
but guns do not grieve or think to miss
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 6 February 1667.
The speaker describes losing hope in a strange, quiet way: their hopes are being eaten by a moth that has no mouth. That image doesn't quite make sense, and that's the point. Something is destroying everything the speaker wanted, yet there is no visible cause, no jaws, no clear culprit.
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