Windfall
a small god may continue to astonish
that chance peach up high against the wind
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 12 November 1667.
Dave Bonta
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a small god may continue to astonish
that chance peach up high against the wind
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 12 November 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Windfall" is a tiny poem that turns on a wish. The speaker hopes that "a small god" will keep astonishing us, and then points to a single image: a peach hanging high on the tree, holding on against the wind. The poem never says whose god this is or where the peach is.
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