Blackbird

the carpenter sent me a blackbird to whistle in the house so pleasant to hear

nightingales sing out back and I hear the poor thing shuffling to riff on a life sentence

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 22 May 1663.

Dave Bonta

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