Citizen, lunatic

Dave BontaAnxious

tired of the war lies growing every day

I am given to unquiet like the sea

and wonder at the deadened glory of a moon

which I shall not think safe out of my sight

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 24 October 1666.

Dave Bonta

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