Open road
gone out of town to discover a peak
the old road not as blue
but rare as gold in the history of pleasure
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 10 August 1668
Dave Bonta
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gone out of town to discover a peak
the old road not as blue
but rare as gold in the history of pleasure
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 10 August 1668
A person leaves town to find a mountain peak, and along the way notices an old road that isn't quite what they expected. The poem is tiny, but it moves from a plain action to a surprising comparison. The first lines sound like a simple report: someone has gone out to discover a peak.
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