Migrant
her home is the mad country to which I commit myself
what a picture drawn by time like the lines in her face
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 March 1666.
Dave Bonta
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her home is the mad country to which I commit myself
what a picture drawn by time like the lines in her face
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 March 1666.
The speaker is talking about someone he loves, and he describes her in terms of a place. Her "home" is a "mad country," and he promises to give himself to it. The word "mad" suggests somewhere wild, unpredictable, maybe even unreasonable, yet he chooses it anyway.
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