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sunset garden
over the wall comes rain that sudden creature with no reservation
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 May 1668
Dave Bonta
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sunset garden
over the wall comes rain that sudden creature with no reservation
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 May 1668
A quiet garden at sunset is interrupted when rain comes over the wall. The speaker doesn't treat it as ordinary weather. Rain becomes "that sudden creature," something alive that slips in uninvited, the way an animal might leap a fence. The final line, "with no reservation," carries two meanings.
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