Adam

Dave BontaContemplative

the first word was Good to touch to eat

converted by a kiss my lips burn every creature within hearing

speech is a light magnified into a whole hard day

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 6 March 1668

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: word, light, touch, kiss

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Imagine the first man discovering language, and the poem becomes a small creation story told in a few quick strokes. Adam's first word is "Good," and it seems tied to the senses: touching, eating, tasting the newly made world.

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