Prophetic
morning comes with a public wren
free of the folly of the high corn
and says we are mad no man knowing the summer
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 16 January 1669.
Dave Bonta
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morning comes with a public wren
free of the folly of the high corn
and says we are mad no man knowing the summer
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 16 January 1669.
Dave Bonta's short poem imagines morning arriving in the form of a bird, a wren that is "public," as if it sings openly for anyone who cares to listen. Against this plain, unguarded creature the poem sets "the folly of the high corn," a phrase that makes the tall summer crop seem proud or foolish,…
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