Ex
an x made to sign letters
a contrary meeting of I and I
standing in for the second self that ivy in the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 July 1667.
Dave Bonta
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an x made to sign letters
a contrary meeting of I and I
standing in for the second self that ivy in the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 July 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Ex" is only a few lines long, but it packs in a lot of wordplay. It starts with the letter itself: an x, the mark someone makes to sign a letter or a kiss. Then the poem turns the word "ex" into a puzzle.
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