On the first day of the rest of my life

put on a new black suit in mourning for the loss of storms that have driven me invitations to wonder and the great wound I did not hope to save

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 11 February 1666.

Dave Bonta

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