Over the influence
I miss the wine I used to live for the fire in my head the mist
and the way the high elms sang in the dark
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 23 March 1668
Dave Bonta
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I miss the wine I used to live for the fire in my head the mist
and the way the high elms sang in the dark
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 23 March 1668
The speaker looks back with a quiet ache at a time when drink, or the intoxication it brought, seemed to be the center of life. The title, "Over the influence," suggests that this period is finished, and the poem's first line, "I miss," admits that finishing it came with a loss.
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