Parallel
morning comes to my parallel day the same as I do
its instrument with my instrument like a mad committee
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 February 1669.
Dave Bonta
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morning comes to my parallel day the same as I do
its instrument with my instrument like a mad committee
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 February 1669.
Two short stanzas, a few quiet images, and a strange idea at the center: the speaker's day has a twin. Morning arrives in this "parallel day" in the same way it arrives for the speaker, as though a second version of life is running alongside the first, with its own sunrise and its own person waking…
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