Distancing

Dave BontaContemplative

having dressed myself I drink my morning wine my new book of fire

is finely bound and colored all the figures I have undressed

the distance between all things in readiness for love or worship

so that we eat what we think to have and therefore part with

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 8 April 1667.

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