Cow
field cow like another country
not stirring even to off a fly
where I see air it sits with the dead
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 6 October 1667.
Dave Bonta
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field cow like another country
not stirring even to off a fly
where I see air it sits with the dead
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 6 October 1667.
The speaker looks at a cow standing in a field and finds it strangely remote. Calling it "like another country" suggests something self-contained and foreign, a place you can see but never enter.
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