Death grip

Dave BontaAnxious

the dead hands of conquest are a field given over to ice

how I fall is my fault under every commander

how I trust the power in a common rhyme

how I take occasion to know the world

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 15 December 1663.

Dave Bonta

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the dead hands of
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