Prospectors

where we met on occasion mining abuses for very small stones locked up in the dirt

the fields could not carry our bodies lost and dangerous whole places blown away

or driven here and there like ships of lack

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 January 1666.

Dave Bonta

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