Widower’s song

she left behind her road and her doors her never sit down her nothing her no body

the discipline of her religion sober and drunk

her living hand melancholy as a careless gun her fear her truth

her contract with me to make whole

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 27 February 1665.

Dave Bonta

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