The captain’s verse
I turn captain of a ship at night gone again to bed setting out afresh in our armed fleet
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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I turn captain of a ship at night gone again to bed setting out afresh in our armed fleet
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 June 1668
Dave Bonta's short poem turns going to bed into a voyage. The speaker says they become the captain of a ship at night, and the moment of lying down becomes a departure. Sleep, or the dreaming that comes with it, is the sea they set out on.
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