Early autumn (2)
We sat all morning among the asters.
Red visions in the evening came to fall.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 September 1662.
Dave Bonta
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We sat all morning among the asters.
Red visions in the evening came to fall.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 September 1662.
Dave Bonta's short poem is about a quiet day outdoors at the turn of the season. The speaker, along with at least one other person, sits among asters, the late-blooming flowers, for the whole morning. Nothing happens, and that seems to be the point.
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