Ash Wednesday

Dave BontaSad

what a man may lose by the neglect of a friend

every well is ash

my face is like an old shoe

I talk with trees

we have had our winter but not the fox’s

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 15 February 1669.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: tree, winter, friend, ash

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Read quickly, these lines can seem like scattered thoughts, but they share a mood of weariness and quiet regret. The opening hints at a loss caused by neglecting a friend, and the speaker seems to be counting the cost.

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