Looking old

Dave BontaContemplative

I begin to grow old visibly like a shoe

or a picture of a picture of a picture

alone I walk in the dusk up and down

surprised to see a hill there at the door

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 6 May 1668

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