Intronaut
my place is not a place I have directions
to make a blue room in my mind
in hopes to find an upper night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 17 November 1668.
Dave Bonta
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my place is not a place I have directions
to make a blue room in my mind
in hopes to find an upper night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 17 November 1668.
The speaker begins with a puzzle: "my place is not a place." Home, here, isn't somewhere you can point to on a map. Yet the next line adds, almost calmly, "I have directions." So there is a way to get there, even if the destination isn't physical.
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