After Trakl

Now the days begin to shorten and when the candle is going out

the smoke descends like a mind turned quiet

and we hear love take leave without speaking…

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 3 September 1662.

Dave Bonta

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