Whisperer
off road her hand tells things to a horse that plain going on no art to it but hill and haze
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 1 September 1668
Dave Bonta
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off road her hand tells things to a horse that plain going on no art to it but hill and haze
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 1 September 1668
A woman and a horse are somewhere off the road, and the poem watches them with almost no fuss. Her hand "tells things" to the animal, a lovely phrase because it suggests communication without words: touch as speech.
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