Prospect
day as a pan of real morning
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 29 September 1668. (Note that this is Pepys’ last entry before a 13-day break in the diary.)
Dave Bonta
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day as a pan of real morning
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 29 September 1668. (Note that this is Pepys’ last entry before a 13-day break in the diary.)
Three short lines, and the whole poem hangs on one odd comparison: the day is "a pan of real morning." Think of a pan as something you hold out, tilted slightly, to see what's in it. Maybe it's the kind of pan a prospector uses to sift river silt for gold.
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