Arboresque
An oak all alone and old I place myself back at my father’s bed.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 June 1660.
Dave Bonta
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An oak all alone and old I place myself back at my father’s bed.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 June 1660.
In just four short lines, the speaker sees an oak tree that stands alone and old, and the sight sends him back to his father's bedside. The poem never says why he is there or what happened, but the jump from tree to bed suggests the memory arrives all at once, the way real memories often do.
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