Shapeshifter

ringing bells speak to me stories undo me

who could refrain from the temptation to imitate birds and dogs

to home ourselves in the bone

and see how many there were on the other side

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 29 May 1666.

Dave Bonta

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