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if the light were a word my tongue could become a glass-bottom boat
I could say and see far into you without being lit
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 April 1668
Dave Bonta
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if the light were a word my tongue could become a glass-bottom boat
I could say and see far into you without being lit
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 April 1668
Here the speaker imagines a strange wish: if light were a word, they could speak it, and their tongue would turn into a glass-bottom boat. Those boats let people look down through the water at what lives below without disturbing it. So the speaker's voice becomes a way of seeing as well as saying.
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