Mist
over the water in the evening a great cry
who to love now that I am old as the timber
and miss the cove of somebody full of care
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 August 1668
Dave Bonta
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over the water in the evening a great cry
who to love now that I am old as the timber
and miss the cove of somebody full of care
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 August 1668
Three short stanzas, and a mood that moves from sound to loneliness. The poem opens with a scene: mist over water in the evening, broken by a great cry. We don't learn what makes the cry, a bird or something else, and that uncertainty lets it hang in the air, a little eerie and a little sad.
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