Hand to hand

my hands huddle with a dram of brandy

at the bar as if at my own table

hearing me cry they touch one another

not to pray but to part having had no quiet

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 5 March 1668

Dave Bonta

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