Diagnosis

Dave BontaContemplative

I found myself out of order and cold like a boat in the trees, silver and ancient. I ought to fall towards the shore, landing somewhere among the reeds like a clear fruit of water.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 21 July 1662.

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