Caregiver

I carry my mother like a child upstairs and down

talking of the necessity of wearing good clothes

offering my hands which I trust because of their mortality

her having given them giving me me

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 12 September 1664.

Dave Bonta

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