Night light
a new room grown in the light of my clock
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 20 October 1668.
Dave Bonta
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a new room grown in the light of my clock
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 20 October 1668.
Anyone who has woken in the middle of the night will recognize the scene here. The room is dark, and the only thing glowing is the face of a clock. The speaker notices that this small light seems to build something: "a new room," grown out of the glow.
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