Displaced

Dying and desire come to me in other things. I am falling into a white sea, I am fierce as ivy and very big with child. I expect to live but continue in pain. So.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 9 August 1661.

Dave Bonta

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