Black is the color

Dave BontaRomantic

how lightly a kiss speaks no word but ourselves

like the ink of night lost in her mourning gown

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 29 May 1667.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Romantic
Topics:
night, love, mourning, kiss

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