Old
old like a gate is old miles of ground lost to it
reckoning the whole hot present a trial of little art
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 14 September 1663.
Dave Bonta
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old like a gate is old miles of ground lost to it
reckoning the whole hot present a trial of little art
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 14 September 1663.
The poem starts with a simple comparison: being old the way a gate is old. A gate is weathered and worn, something people pass through without noticing, and it stays put while everything around it moves.
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