Seasoning
where the morning rain comes in a farewell in bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 13 May 1669.
Dave Bonta
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where the morning rain comes in a farewell in bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 13 May 1669.
Three short lines, and almost nothing happens, which is the point. Rain arrives in the morning, and the speaker is still in bed, listening. The poem seems to treat that sound as a kind of goodbye, though it never says who or what is being left behind. That gap is where the feeling lives.
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