First blood

Dave BontaAnxious

blood in the night they say nothing about it to her

take dinner in a room beset with delicate pictures

where horses painted like shelves for war

pass with great calmness into the devil’s wheat

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 19 January 1662/63.

Dave Bonta

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