Hunting ground

Dave BontaContemplative

I go out hunting from an urge to see

though never to lie in a field in idleness is almost

to miss the truth of the place in the guise of quiet

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 3 November 1662.

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