High and lonesome

Dave BontaInspired

the night’s mouth being sealed I kiss the void that I might not go mad

the most humble nothing must be spared and wild

like the first day with God in that no home place

I am no one and I am going to live

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 4 November 1668.

Dave Bonta

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