Climate refugee

I miss my own piece of ground under the sea

under a fly of the Lord’s some thin cross

my mind could be like a harp and no hand to suit it

should any religion call me like a ruin of a friend

shall death and despair rule or temper me

knowing the time to fall and the time to age

to go sleep with the crows in my hindered land

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 13 November 1668.

Dave Bonta

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