Dusk
full of land as a mole
done in with war
how much this day will rust in the country of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 20 December 1662.
Dave Bonta
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full of land as a mole
done in with war
how much this day will rust in the country of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 20 December 1662.
The poem is a few lines long, but it packs in a strange, heavy image of evening. Dusk is compared to a mole, a creature that lives underground, and this mole is "full of land" and "done in with war." The comparison suggests the end of the day feels crammed with earth, exhausted, and beaten down, as…
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