Rumiesque

Dave BontaContemplative

I value nothing more than error

desire life before the service of courage

the old must suspect that the mad motions of the heart

serve no purpose but love or hatching

the sudden motion of a cellar door long kept locked

and half the wine drunk as a remedy

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 2 June 1663.

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