Night watchman

Dave BontaContemplative

how small are our words against the whole night

do not lie too long in one place at night

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 25 September 1668

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
night, word, sleep

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