Clarity
how ugly was yesterday and how fine today
seeing with our minds altered
and the bright sea stirring up and down
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 17 September 1666.
Dave Bonta
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how ugly was yesterday and how fine today
seeing with our minds altered
and the bright sea stirring up and down
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 17 September 1666.
The speaker is looking back at a bad day and comparing it to a much better one. Yesterday was "ugly," today is "fine," and the poem never says why. What it does say is that the change is in how they see: "seeing with / our minds altered." The shift seems to be inside, not outside, though the poem…
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