Inspiration
thick mist and rain
a child is led by the owl-spirit into the night to find a lost key
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 1 February 1667.
Dave Bonta
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thick mist and rain
a child is led by the owl-spirit into the night to find a lost key
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 1 February 1667.
The poem is a tiny night scene that feels like the start of a fairy tale. It opens with weather: thick mist and rain, which blur everything and make the world hard to see. Into that murk walks a child, guided not by a parent or a lantern but by an owl-spirit.
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