Playing for keeps

Dave BontaContemplative

working a kite the burden of power in my hand

almost out but easily brought to again

her body like a peak invites me to teem rather than fall

news came last night of a fever for land

a mad thing the business of selling places

stones to keep for rarity in the mouth

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 25 May 1663.

Dave Bonta

Learn by heart: tap a gap

the of power in my hand

almost out but

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