Beach body

white sand and a body

made sweet with the easiness of nature

like land dissolving in the sea

and the oyster-woman’s way forever is to eat

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 25 November 1668.

Dave Bonta

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