Heartful dodger

Dave BontaContemplative

fool that I was I thought the word heart means

a raw answer to my mind a cook’s shop

an infinite field like a kind of void

with only a pair of black horses

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 11 December 1668.

Dave Bonta

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