day like a hole for light I have not seen
an orange undressed into four and twenty pieces
by you our neighbors you our hopes of a hereafter
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 6 January 1668.
The title sets the tone: the speaker is a skeptic, someone who doesn't take comfort on trust. The poem opens with an odd, dark image of a day as "a hole for light" that the speaker has "not seen." Daylight seems like an opening or gap rather than something warm, and the speaker hasn't yet witnessed…
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