Piscean
fish touching fish make me understand something of the night
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 24 February 1665.
Dave Bonta
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fish touching fish make me understand something of the night
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 24 February 1665.
Two lines are all it takes here, and they hold a surprising amount. The speaker pictures fish touching one another, a small, quiet contact in the water, and says it helps them understand "something of the night." The poem doesn't spell out what that something is, which is part of its pull.
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