Visionary

just as I was going out everything stood still

I see the generals and their wounded flag freeze as fearful of being seen as a rabbit

and in the wood the innocent singing of a god who died

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 1 August 1666.

Dave Bonta

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