Temps perdu

so great a passion might not come again

my head running on ceremonies of sorrow

the death of words never spoken

letters unfit to deliver a child

the wind and a match make love in a cloister

body stirring where I lost my head

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 27 September 1667.

Dave Bonta

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