Red
dinner after dinner no wine to be had
though seeing a fox with fur red as sin
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 28 May 1668
Dave Bonta
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dinner after dinner no wine to be had
though seeing a fox with fur red as sin
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 28 May 1668
This tiny poem sets two things side by side: an absence and a sudden flash of color. The first couplet sounds flat and repetitive. "Dinner after dinner" suggests a routine of meals that drag on, and the missing wine feels like a small but nagging lack, as if the evenings are missing something that…
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