Falconer

I put on my gray riding garb to go up the garden stairs

and made a hand with five guns

for the king’s falcon, who fell asleep in my head.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 13 June 1661.

Dave Bonta

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