Pandemic

Dave BontaAnxious

my head full of carcasses

not able to begin to talk as no answer could answer it

I see the land thrive on burial

I see dancing beyond the word tomorrow

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 7 March 1667.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Anxious
Topics:: dance, land, plague, carcass

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The speaker is overwhelmed by death. The first image is stark: a head "full of carcasses," as if the mind has become a place where the dead are stored. Given the title, it's natural to read this as a response to a pandemic, though the poem never names any specific event.

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