Missionary
when I am not fully awake I am a far wing
my mission is to find a blind river in a book of colors
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 June 1667.
Dave Bonta
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when I am not fully awake I am a far wing
my mission is to find a blind river in a book of colors
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 June 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Missionary" catches a mind in the blurry moment between sleep and waking. The speaker says that in this state they become "a far wing," a drifting, distant thing that is hard to pin down.
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