Funeral
church and I sang a psalm to the stairs
a newly drowned body was there to dance
out of her being out of her us
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 31 May 1668
Dave Bonta
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church and I sang a psalm to the stairs
a newly drowned body was there to dance
out of her being out of her us
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 31 May 1668
The poem is a short, strange fragment of a funeral, and it works by suggestion rather than explanation. We get a church, a speaker singing a psalm, and an odd detail: the psalm is sung "to the stairs," not to a congregation or to God.
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