Hanging

Go and be hanged, we call to a clerk, to a schoolmaster, to two cows in the wood, to God, to children, to the man that hangs on Shooter’s Hill, filthy flesh shrunk to his bones.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 11 April 1661.

Dave Bonta

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