Elated
news of peace
o I am sun in sand the new cut in a sail
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys: unfinished entries for Saturday 11 April and Sunday 12 April 1668
Dave Bonta
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news of peace
o I am sun in sand the new cut in a sail
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys: unfinished entries for Saturday 11 April and Sunday 12 April 1668
Dave Bonta's "Elated" is tiny, but it holds a whole burst of feeling. The first two lines, "news / of peace," are bare and almost like a headline. The poem doesn't say whose peace or which conflict, so the news feels both specific and open, something the speaker has just heard and is still taking…
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