Shore Leave

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

A day bright as silver,
the women in black like boats
swimming in the sea.
On shore, I walk like a captain:
I roll, not able to stand.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 15 May 1660.

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