Wintry
words live like a cross in a quiet head
where winter is appointed to the poor
everybody else acting the part of a public
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 16 October 1667.
Dave Bonta
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words live like a cross in a quiet head
where winter is appointed to the poor
everybody else acting the part of a public
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 16 October 1667.
Dave Bonta's "Wintry" is a short, cold poem about the weight of language and the gap between inner life and public show. It opens with an odd image: words living "like a cross" in a quiet head.
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