Front Gate

Dave BontaSad

Black with ivy, my heart is a gate, shut since I found my wife. I let it go to him that shall hire my house.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 August 1660.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
heart, gate, wife, house

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my is a gate,
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