Urgent
noon in my tooth
an urge is come that raw being to comfort me
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 18 May 1669.
Dave Bonta
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noon in my tooth
an urge is come that raw being to comfort me
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 18 May 1669.
The poem is tiny, but it packs in a whole sensation. "Noon in my tooth" is a strange, sharp image: noon is the brightest, hottest point of the day, and here it has landed inside a single tooth. It reads like a flare of pain, a bright, throbbing ache with nowhere to hide.
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