Improbabilities

Dave BontaDreamy

I have seen yesterday come today among other signs

like making bread and wine out of words

or meeting my love in a maze after supper

Erasure poems derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 February 1668.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: love, wine, bread, maze

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Dave Bonta's short poem is a list of things the speaker calls "improbabilities," though the way he describes them feels more like wonder than doubt. Each one is a small impossibility that he says he has actually seen or lived through.

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