morning light on the leaves life is tender like that and open
not to elves but an old pigeon in all his air of being right
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 October 1666.
The poem begins with a small, quiet moment: morning light falling on leaves. From that, the speaker draws a simple thought, that life is "tender like that / and open." It's a gentle, almost hushed observation, the kind you have when you stop for a second and really look at something ordinary.
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