Urban pastoral

Dave BontaContemplative

after great pain eating a bit of bread in the sun

behind me the savory discourse of people at the madhouse

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 1 February 1665.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
sun, bread, madhouse

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