Chapeau
new hat like a sail travels on her head like a wilderness into the street
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 20 May 1668
Dave Bonta
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new hat like a sail travels on her head like a wilderness into the street
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 20 May 1668
Bonta gives us a single moment: a woman steps into the street wearing a new hat, and the speaker watches her go. The whole poem is built from two comparisons. First the hat is "like a sail," which suggests something light and bright that catches the air and carries her forward.
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