ContemplatifDave BontaAfter readingall the books continuing in me other matters colors pains are my own and near
ContemplatifDave BontaEmotion vs. insighta red rave is good seeming to be an art to ice all pain but ink comes only from the night
TristeDave BontaOld, blueold and in pain I would bring my heart ugly as the mother of a wound to you like the sea alone with a captain in the middle of a sound sleep
AnxieuxDave BontaGunmanthis gun is afraid of trouble and pain my bad temper reading and art the company of a rose I talk with it in a whole lexicon of blood
TristeDave BontaMasochistI believe in pain a rose of stone in the lower back I break an oar in I know not what great water
TristeDave BontaTheodicya black mist of pain more than most believe church after church seems to hate me
TristeDave BontaResting placeher grave lost in the garden has been a serviceable friend a false teaching which eases pain water in my eyes
TristeDave BontaMarlroad lost in a field lost in marl a wound is my cure for anything though it may ooze now and then out with a tooth having been in pain all day I am raw and old as the earth
TristeDave BontaStrandedwith my heart of a captain pain is freight I have set down at noon to the wood a tract of masts and the hard land like a merchant without any receipt
TristeDave BontaIn extremispain coming a drowned light in the sand white pain comes to me as lace and I am itself the cast of a person I never saw before
TristeDave BontaShootera boy and a gun his kept rose the afternoon arithmetic is subtraction and division I pray to have some pain begin with me