Encounter
night over a corpse in the street
and at the fright over my oath a wing
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 10 August 1665.
Dave Bonta
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night over a corpse in the street
and at the fright over my oath a wing
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 10 August 1665.
A speaker comes across a corpse in the street at night, and the poem moves in a few quick, broken steps. The first lines set the scene plainly: darkness, a body, nothing else. Then comes fright, and with it a mention of an "oath." The poem never says what the oath is, so we have to guess.
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