Making certain

Dave BontaContemplative

I dare not reckon myself sure till I have it in my mind

the rusted table not pretty my books not neat

the clasp of an hour or two is brought to a head

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 8 July 1664.

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