Pinched

Dave BontaAnxious

I slept backward in a thin framed self

my hand bled

my book and table continued all night to exceed me

my bed laden as a full mouth

what would we give for good news for the poor

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 16 August 1666.

Dave Bonta

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