Holiday
We sit by the sea to find still ground. At the prison, men singing till ten at night.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 24 June 1662.
Dave Bonta
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We sit by the sea to find still ground. At the prison, men singing till ten at night.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 24 June 1662.
Four short lines hold two scenes side by side. In the first, a group of people ("we") sit by the sea, looking for "still ground," a place to rest and feel steady. That's what a holiday is meant to offer: a break from pressure, a patch of calm.
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