World enough and time

Dave BontaRomantic

I am alone as the clock or an orange in translation

mean as a little sun blue at the difficulty of love

do I take this world to be my wife today in her flower suit

a body in love is so much well-oiled uncertainty

its secret motions calling up a sea of my own

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 26 March 1668

Dave Bonta

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