Ephemera
art out of sand at the sea will it sing
to a whore to a church lady with white gloves
to us with news ear and a going mouth
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 5 July 1667.
Dave Bonta
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art out of sand at the sea will it sing
to a whore to a church lady with white gloves
to us with news ear and a going mouth
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 5 July 1667.
The title, "Ephemera," points to things that don't last, and the poem's first image fits that: art made out of sand at the sea, bound to be washed away. The speaker asks, almost idly, whether such a work "will it sing", whether it can speak or move anyone at all.
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