Alive
so much life in this storm like an unborn world
I am terrified in the night with dreams of falling
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 15 September 1666.
Dave Bonta
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so much life in this storm like an unborn world
I am terrified in the night with dreams of falling
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 15 September 1666.
Dave Bonta's "Alive" is a tiny poem that turns on a sudden shift. The first three lines look outward at a storm and find something wonderful in it: "so much life," and the striking comparison to "an unborn world." A storm here isn't just noise and damage.
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