National park

Dave BontaAngry

field where I find the night newly arrived

and whoever broke us rich men or soldiers

come for where the red land is only a bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 August 1668

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Angry
Topics:: night, soldier, field, park

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Dave Bonta's short poem reads like a half-whispered thought in a protected landscape. The speaker stands in a field and notices the night "newly arrived," as if darkness were a visitor, fresh and a little startling.

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