Earthen

Dave BontaContemplative

the ground is some kind of plot

dangerous for a stranger to walk on

being all dirt and the moving earth

as ugly as my life this one body of flame

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 6 September 1666.

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