Settler
I sat all morning and the land sat there till night and my very eyes began to sit
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 January 1663/64.
Dave Bonta
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I sat all morning and the land sat there till night and my very eyes began to sit
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 January 1663/64.
In just five short lines, a speaker sits and does nothing, and the poem turns that stillness into something strange. The first two lines set up a simple match: "I sat all morning / and the land sat there." The land is treated as if it were sitting too, as though person and landscape were keeping…
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