The River Thames

The tide went from ship to ship like a captain at the tavern calling at a room where there was infinite cake— water in the reeds, a voyage into some bed.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 1 June 1661.

Dave Bonta

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