Idyll
I find home in a gold frame
a painting as natural as a great garden
while you who I love howl about a tick
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 June 1666.
Dave Bonta
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I find home in a gold frame
a painting as natural as a great garden
while you who I love howl about a tick
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 June 1666.
The speaker describes finding a sense of home inside a painting, a gold-framed scene that feels as natural as a huge garden. It's a calm, almost dreamy image of belonging, somewhere ordered, beautiful and still. Then the poem swerves.
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