The sick rose

Dave BontaSad

the rose we know is in every garden privately undone

as if it were fit to put a true but common tragedy in a box velvet as ash

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 1 January 1662/63.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
rose, garden, tragedy

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