Miners
we fit ourselves to the dirt walk down the mine
having left my keys to the field in a dream
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 15 January 1662/63.
Dave Bonta
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we fit ourselves to the dirt walk down the mine
having left my keys to the field in a dream
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 15 January 1662/63.
The poem is only a few lines long, yet it pulls in two directions at once: down into the earth and out into the strangeness of a dream. In the first line, "we fit ourselves to the dirt" suggests miners shaping their bodies and lives to the narrow, dark space they work in.
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