All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox.
home for Christmas
this earth
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 20 December 1660.

All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox.
home for Christmas
this earth
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 20 December 1660.
Very simple, and rather perfect.
Thanks, Dave.
Thanks, Kris. I resisted the simplicity for a while, before realizing it is in fact a haiku.