Bequest
the morning is gone it has left me some quiet and a little frost
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 5 February 1662/63, and prompted by Luisa A. Igloria’s “Bequest.”
Dave Bonta
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the morning is gone it has left me some quiet and a little frost
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 5 February 1662/63, and prompted by Luisa A. Igloria’s “Bequest.”
Bonta's poem is only three lines long, but it works like a small act of looking back. The speaker describes the morning as something that has already passed, and instead of mourning it, notices what it left behind: some quiet and a little frost.
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