Over sight

a black woman I never saw took notice of me

my sorrow at this world my embracing loss

and her voice grew out of my sleep

but trouble was what I saw not her

preferring any hurt that I did

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 25 October 1668.

Dave Bonta

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