Ash Wednesday

Dave BontaContemplative

Ash overtook me, all joy only a seed on the wind. I went to the alley and bought a cat and a good piece of cheese, I wonder why. As if it is better to be here than anywhere else.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 7 March 1659/60.

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