Voice
possible as being content what I hear in my trouble
a quiet translated from the desert night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 23 June 1666.
Dave Bonta
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possible as being content what I hear in my trouble
a quiet translated from the desert night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 23 June 1666.
In just a few lines, the poem describes a moment of listening. The speaker hears something "in my trouble," so we sense they are worried or unsettled, though the poem never says why. What they hear is a voice, or something like one, and the surprise is that it brings comfort rather than more noise.
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