Mangroves
trees trees full of news from sunk ships
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 April 1664.
Dave Bonta
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trees trees full of news from sunk ships
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 April 1664.
Three short lines, and a whole image: mangrove trees standing at the water's edge, somehow carrying "news from sunk ships." The poem never says what that news is, and that gap is where its power sits.
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