Night train

on the night train we grow into our coach

drink like brothers sleep like wells of light

walk ’round like lost sheep far from any houses

read like patriarchs shod with iron shoes

we fly through the night cool as a glowworm

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 14 July 1667.

Dave Bonta

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