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we held on two pieces of thin ice where night leases day like a flat in London together till past one
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 2 December 1665.
Dave Bonta
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we held on two pieces of thin ice where night leases day like a flat in London together till past one
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 2 December 1665.
Two people cling to each other late into the night, and the poem treats that closeness as both precious and fragile. The "two pieces of thin ice" suggest that each person is brittle, or that the connection between them could crack at any moment.
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