Gunfire

Dave BontaAnxious

I drink a draft of desire. A gun gives widowhood and the discourse of revenge: to meet and dissolve, to issue hurt. I was glad to hear a sermon too eloquent for a pulpit— the talking rain.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 19 February 1659/60.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Anxious
Topics:
rain, gun, revenge, widow

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