Winded

a green wind at the door

I let it in to play and it began to play with fire

I ordered it out and it went and got lost in the forest

till the moon made it go to sleep in a bottle

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 19 August 1665.

Dave Bonta

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