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Ice in the fir came paper-thin— a sail from Holland.
Erasure poems derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 September 1660.
Dave Bonta
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Ice in the fir came paper-thin— a sail from Holland.
Erasure poems derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 September 1660.
Dave Bonta's three-line poem is a single glimpse: a fir tree with a thin layer of ice on it. The ice is so delicate that it seems "paper-thin," and then the poem makes a surprising leap, comparing it to "a sail from Holland."
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