Inside out

Dave BontaDreamy

the door beginning from this hand is most of my road in and then out

the first time I was a dog I did nothing but play with nothing yet at stake

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 October 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: play, door, road, dog

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The poem is short and a little puzzling, but its pictures are simple. In the first stanza, the speaker looks at a hand and treats it as the start of a door. That odd idea suggests that reaching out, opening, and touching are how we begin to travel anywhere.

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