Biblionaut
dinner and a book in which I go far
parallel to the night road I lay awake
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 April 1669.
Dave Bonta
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dinner and a book in which I go far
parallel to the night road I lay awake
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 April 1669.
The title, "Biblionaut," is a coined word that suggests a book-voyager, much like an astronaut or an aeronaut. That idea drives the whole short poem. The speaker has finished dinner and settled into a book, and reading becomes a journey: "in which I go far."
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