Hibernal

Dave BontaAnxious

what fear at every cough in the coffee house

the poorest body must be a winter

made of a hundred fish with snow at the bottom

the dead come to life flesh hollow as wax

they inhabit the violence of the winds

and no dog but a wolf could help us take joy

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 11 December 1663.

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