Weekend

Dave BontaContemplative

tomorrow is the color of the water in my glass

and today is an instrument for perspective

a wren making her home on my acre of nothing

but at night the yellow sun is cleaned and oiled

staying among poor people as a common blessing

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 30 April 1669.

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