Vagrants

Dave BontaDreamy

a narrow street people escape on the wind like down

into a paper woods a place with no door

and there they live nobody speaking of the city

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 23 August 1667.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: wind, city, escape, wood

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Dave Bonta's "Vagrants" is a tiny scene that feels half like a dream and half like a fable. It begins in a narrow street, where people lift off "on the wind like down," as if they weigh almost nothing. They drift into a "paper woods," a place with no door, and settle there.

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