Stranded

with my heart of a captain pain is freight I have set down

at noon to the wood a tract of masts

and the hard land like a merchant without any receipt

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 16 December 1663.

Dave Bonta

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