Warrior

silver-hilted sword like a cold slur against all seeking

I grow drunk and drink with nobody but you

no miracle that dirt should come to the rose

lodging in that cipher the present is what I foresee

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 4 November 1666.

Dave Bonta

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