Changing of the guard
a lost road where all the afternoon went
and here in my little yard night walked in
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 21 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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a lost road where all the afternoon went
and here in my little yard night walked in
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 21 July 1668
In just a few lines, this poem catches the moment when day turns into night. The first stanza looks backward. A "lost road" is where "all the afternoon went," as if the hours simply wandered off down a path and couldn't find their way back.
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