Dream conversion

I dream of meeting my love and she is dead

I dream a stone swelled and turned into a gray bird

I dream the stairs go down to the Ganges

and I become religious and wail like a lost wind

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 29 June 1667.

Dave Bonta

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I dream of my love
and she is
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