Deep sleeper
long in bed I sleep till the night is fine fur rich as an infinite tent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 February 1669.
Dave Bonta
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long in bed I sleep till the night is fine fur rich as an infinite tent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 February 1669.
Dave Bonta's short poem puts us inside a long, luxurious stretch of sleep. The speaker stays in bed so long that the night itself seems to change texture. It stops being just darkness and becomes "fine fur," something soft you could stroke or burrow into.
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