Pilgrim
off after inner being
rain will be my letters
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 25 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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off after inner being
rain will be my letters
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 25 July 1668
Two short lines, and a whole journey sits inside them. The title tells us the speaker is a pilgrim, and the first line says what the journey is for: not a shrine or a faraway city, but "inner being." The speaker is setting out to find something within, which is a strange kind of destination, since…
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