Lost time
clock sleeping in the forest bald as a pear
an absence of direction imputed to the town
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 May 1668
Dave Bonta
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clock sleeping in the forest bald as a pear
an absence of direction imputed to the town
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 May 1668
Two short images carry this tiny poem, and both are about things that have stopped working. In the first, a clock sits asleep in a forest, "bald as a pear." The comparison is odd and a little funny: a clock face, smooth and round and blank, looks like fruit with no hands or numbers to mark…
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