Self-inflicted

Dave BontaAnxious

noon turning into a bruise I have given myself

thin as thunder or the fear of so much quiet

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 7 July 1666.

Dave Bonta

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noon into a bruise
I have given
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