Dream sequence

Dave BontaDreamy

in sleep I am hunting books

the best poet of our nation is washing her hair

it is raining she sings like the air

so natural saying nothing

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 12 August 1667.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: dream, rain, book

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The poem moves like a dream: a few quiet images set side by side, with no explanation linking them. The speaker is asleep and "hunting books," as if reading were something to track down and catch. Then the scene shifts to a woman, described as the best poet of the nation, simply washing her hair.

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