Night music
a mast to hang venison as mightily bled as the night in a viol
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 16 February 1663/64.
Dave Bonta
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a mast to hang venison as mightily bled as the night in a viol
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 16 February 1663/64.
Three short lines, and one strange comparison holding them together. The poem begins with a mast, a tall pole, used to hang venison, a slaughtered deer left to drain and age.
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