Isolated
several places cost me the very outside
o my heavy house alone with my doubt
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 December 1667.
Dave Bonta
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several places cost me the very outside
o my heavy house alone with my doubt
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 December 1667.
Isolated is a tiny poem, but it feels crowded with weight. In the first stanza the speaker says that "several places" have cost them "the very outside." It's an odd, striking phrase.
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