Golden years

the first cherries off the tree gather in the green water

I am resolved to understand my old body

the eyes that corrupt me yet and the way I serve my stomach

eating a dinner of wind for an empty urn

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 7 July 1663.

Dave Bonta

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