Half/full

the half moon appears full for what I have lost what I have exceeded

my eyes give up wonder

light comes to them in a sad condition now

I grow backward like an ear whole at half

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 31 December 1666.

Dave Bonta

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