Butcher
my head full of unborn answers
ax in my hand to dissect an ox
to see red is to unsee the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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my head full of unborn answers
ax in my hand to dissect an ox
to see red is to unsee the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 July 1668
A butcher stands with an ax, ready to cut open an ox, and his mind is crowded with questions he can't yet answer. The poem is only a few lines long, but it holds a sharp tension between the hunger to understand and the cost of looking too closely.
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