Vagrant
one in the morning the road out of town is deep and still as a blind god
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 17 June 1665.
Dave Bonta
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one in the morning the road out of town is deep and still as a blind god
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 17 June 1665.
Two short lines are enough to set a whole scene: it is one in the morning, and someone is looking at the road that leads out of town. Nothing moves. The speaker doesn't tell us where they are going or why, but the title, "Vagrant," suggests a person with no fixed place, someone for whom a…
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