Desire
oven of my yesterday an old bus I miss sometimes
concerned for some other part of the book of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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oven of my yesterday an old bus I miss sometimes
concerned for some other part of the book of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 July 1668
Dave Bonta's "Desire" is a short, strange poem that works by stacking images instead of explaining itself. The speaker begins by calling yesterday an "oven," which suggests something warm and enclosed, but also something that can bake or burn.
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