Marshlands
I found the ground there in back of the sea mouth to mouth hunting a moth of fire
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 21 June 1667.
Dave Bonta
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I found the ground there in back of the sea mouth to mouth hunting a moth of fire
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 21 June 1667.
In just four lines, the speaker describes a strange, dreamlike discovery. They find solid ground in an unexpected place: "in back of the sea," as if the land were hiding behind the water.
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