Angler
in the raw present I fish to be serviceable and to pray and to be
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 6 November 1664.
Dave Bonta
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in the raw present I fish to be serviceable and to pray and to be
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 6 November 1664.
Four short lines, and the whole poem is a list of reasons for standing at the water with a line out. The speaker fishes "in the raw present," which suggests a moment stripped of distraction, with nothing between them and what is happening right now.
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