Overhead

Dave BontaDreamy

on my morning walk how to preserve free ways in the heart

field where I find the air full of strange and pretty things

above me as far as the rain

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 March 1668

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: rain, morning, air, field

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A short walk becomes a moment of looking up. The speaker is out on a morning walk, and a thought drifts in about how to keep "free ways" alive in the heart, which suggests a wish to stay open, unhurried, and unfenced by routine. The poem doesn't answer that question.

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