Old salt

Dave BontaDreamy

captain of sand my harbor is a mile into the country

where I hope we shall have no port for I am out of rust

and weary of answering the sea

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 29 February 1668.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Dreamy
Topics:
sea, sand, harbor, rust

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