Natural piety

who was I being too free in the city of desire

before having anything in my head when my belly was it

like the raw ground in fields wanton with sun and sleep

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 14 March 1666.

Dave Bonta

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