Rain
Water into water comes to be my morning’s work: books into books out of books.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 7 July 1662.
Dave Bonta
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Water into water comes to be my morning’s work: books into books out of books.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 7 July 1662.
Dave Bonta's "Rain" is only four lines long, but it packs in a quiet idea about how work, reading, and writing can blur together. The speaker describes the morning's work as "water into water," a image of rain falling into puddles, streams, or a larger body of water, where one thing simply becomes…
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