Field work

Dave BontaContemplative

the field set on fire by children lives again

the field called us gather in a ring have children

one field burning while they quench another

engine of straw mistress of loss

this morning field which I thought had been killed with so much hot weather

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 July 1667.

Dave Bonta

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