Bird watcher

Dave BontaInspired

carrying with me all my places like plain victuals

my head is full of light going into summer

oh martin oh starling whistle the best life

in fields where nobody comes flying

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 1 March 1668

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Inspired
Topics:: summer, bird, field

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The speaker is a bird watcher who seems to be walking out into early summer with everything they've ever known tucked inside them. The "places" they carry are compared to "plain victuals", simple food packed for a journey, so memory becomes something ordinary and nourishing rather than grand.

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