Spell

O for the coat of a dog in a chill wind or a bear pleasant as a storm

the woods are canonical for trouble being full of such extraordinary rooms

curtains of light where I go to sleep enchantments whispering in the ear

flat on the ground as if dead fingers as high as they could reach

saying the words that make the words strange I believe that only will preserve us

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 31 July 1665.

Dave Bonta

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