In Cuba

Dave BontaContemplative

the old monstrous god of bodkin and thimble

broke open till all was out I saw no paper question it

as silver as music the water here

we find the town beside the fort a contingency unsettled in sand

news here in Cuba signifies little but to say that something comes

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 April 1663.

Dave Bonta

Learn by heart: tap a gap

the old god

of bodkin and

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