Open handed

Dave BontaAnxious

in my hands the world of a beggar who is all alone and no less than one thousand people in the street

I fear every day more and more the state answering the question who is it that the weight of the war depends on

a man betrayed to the sea for security’s sake let me be godfather to a swan and steal a kiss of the night

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 6 July 1666.

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