Homeless
a beggar in the library dry old manuscripts of hands
in the church of no chance we find him telling stories to the spirits
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 18 September 1663.
Dave Bonta
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a beggar in the library dry old manuscripts of hands
in the church of no chance we find him telling stories to the spirits
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 18 September 1663.
Two short scenes make up this poem, and in both a homeless man turns up in a place that wouldn't expect him. First he is a beggar in a library, and the poet describes the manuscripts there as "dry old manuscripts of hands." That odd phrase makes the pages feel like hands themselves, brittle and…
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