Reader
I read read all alone
read till I am cross- grained I am
full of strangers I am read.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 15 December 1661.
Dave Bonta
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I read read all alone
read till I am cross- grained I am
full of strangers I am read.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 15 December 1661.
In just a few lines, the speaker describes reading as a solitary act that slowly changes who they are. The repetition of "read" in the first lines feels almost like turning pages, one after another, with nobody else around.
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