Hole
among things flat and decent the hole suffered alone
out on the margin of the untrue
who shall find it shall miss it
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 May 1667.
Dave Bonta
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among things flat and decent the hole suffered alone
out on the margin of the untrue
who shall find it shall miss it
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 May 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Hole" turns an absence into a character. The hole sits among things that are "flat and decent", a pair of words that suggests smooth, orderly, respectable surroundings.
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