Anchorite
wind and cold I never need better friends meditating by candlelight
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 15 August 1663.
Dave Bonta
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wind and cold I never need better friends meditating by candlelight
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 15 August 1663.
The title does a lot of quiet work here. An anchorite is someone who withdraws from the world to live alone, usually for religious reasons, and the poem's three short lines sketch exactly that kind of life: harsh weather outside, a single candle, a person sitting still in meditation.
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