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on a walk up a hill the urge to call in an owl

and promise it a cold wind

clear like the river a dish of fresh fish

and people trimmed into stones standing upright

the antiquity of a doubt that could not speak

with owls or breasts the fields dark as pitch

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 March 1669.

Dave Bonta

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