Landscape
where I see only you it is as a landscape in the evening with one good horse against the pen
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 March 1667.
Dave Bonta
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where I see only you it is as a landscape in the evening with one good horse against the pen
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 March 1667.
The speaker is describing how they see another person: only that person, and everything else falls away. The way they put it is a little odd. Instead of saying "you fill my view," they say you appear "as a landscape in the evening." The beloved becomes a whole stretch of land, quiet and softened by…
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