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holy only to the haze sun in the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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holy only to the haze sun in the garden
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 June 1668
Three short lines, and almost nothing happens: sunlight falls on a garden through haze. Yet the poem treats it as something close to sacred. The word "holy" stands alone at the start, so it arrives before we know what it describes, and then the next line qualifies it.
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