The ghost of Christmas present

Dave BontaRomantic

above all things I wish to sit at the table with napkins open talking in the mother tongue of wonder

and so be righted again with my wife leaning into sleep and the treasure of touch

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 30 November 1667.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Romantic
Topics:
sleep, touch, wife, table

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