Apart
not seeing her whom I love I am nothing
a great cry grown in the spring
all the ham curing in one little room
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 8 March 1667.
Dave Bonta
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not seeing her whom I love I am nothing
a great cry grown in the spring
all the ham curing in one little room
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 8 March 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Apart" is about the ache of being away from someone you love. The opening two lines are blunt: without seeing her, the speaker says, "I am nothing." There is no decoration here, just a plain statement of emptiness.
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