House of the Rising Sun

Dave BontaContemplative

Morning is a clear house, afternoon a wardrobe. At supper, I looked over what I took to be Susan, but it proved to be me.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 24 May 1661.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
morning, house, self, supper

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