Miners

Dave BontaContemplative

Out of the old coal hole, new and clean at 3:00 o’clock

the colliers see in the dark, garden some ill wood and believe in little.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 8 February 1661/62.

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