Streetwise

Dave BontaAnxious

I walk the length of the dark street a busy confiture of doors and high words

where I pretend to know trouble and pass some heart tempered with sleep

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 2 November 1663.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Anxious
Topics:
heart, door, street, trouble

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