though it blows and rains he is gone hunting till dark
and his late dog and the war that everywhere war
come close suffer a touch
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 28 November 1666.
A man goes out hunting despite wind and rain, and he won't be back until dark. That's the plain scene, but the poem quickly lets two other things slip in: his dog, which is now "late" (a word that suggests it has died), and a war that is happening "everywhere." The repeated word makes the war feel…
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