Grave matters

Dave BontaContemplative

my sepulcher is repaired by this summer air

it will have every safe doubt and redoubt

and all evening to be spare like a bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 June 1668

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
death, summer, grave, bed

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