Tract
in the contract for a field all that lives here is without any reckoning
poor as the shale and the business of visions
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 5 November 1663.
Dave Bonta
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in the contract for a field all that lives here is without any reckoning
poor as the shale and the business of visions
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 5 November 1663.
The poem sets two ways of seeing a piece of land against each other. One is the language of a contract, where a field is a parcel with boundaries and a value. The other is everything that actually lives there, which the contract has no way of counting.
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