Bookworm
the brown book of a wing— look up
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 27 May 1669.
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
the brown book of a wing— look up
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 27 May 1669.
Three short lines, and the whole poem turns on a single comparison: a brown wing becomes a brown book. The title, "Bookworm," sets up the joke and the wonder together.
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