Fish head

Dave BontaContemplative

in the salt of noon comes a dinner made only of fat

the eye is a fine sight to see at table

white and still as an ignorant bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 9 September 1664.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
table, eye, fish, salt

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