Booklover

the sea is so much her own matter rough and raw

that I long for an hour in stone where we tend to a thin world

and my chief joy is to buy a virginal book

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 March 1662/63.

Dave Bonta

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that I long for an hour in
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