Empty bed blues

troubled in sleep by a too-loud heart

my night body was ready to believe

it was lost and I a strange country

with my hundred ears every day losing ground

to the void in my bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 10 May 1669.

Dave Bonta

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