High
in a high place the promise of utmost ruin
my tent all alone
I am air and light only I think
I have this one day
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 July 1667.
Dave Bonta
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in a high place the promise of utmost ruin
my tent all alone
I am air and light only I think
I have this one day
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 July 1667.
The speaker is camped somewhere high up, and the poem sits in the tension between danger and freedom. The first line sounds ominous: a high place carries "the promise of utmost ruin." That could mean a literal fall, a storm, or simply the feeling that being this exposed makes everything fragile.
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