Reduction
every pleasure begins somehow as powder and a lax fire
remember my ham bone refresh me in us that I may be Secretary of Stew
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 March 1667.
Dave Bonta
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every pleasure begins somehow as powder and a lax fire
remember my ham bone refresh me in us that I may be Secretary of Stew
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 March 1667.
The title "Reduction" is a cooking term, and the poem plays with it: boil something long enough and you're left with a concentrated essence. The first stanza suggests that pleasure works this way. It starts out humble and unfinished, "powder" and a "lax fire," a slow, low heat rather than a blaze.
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