[In whose hall on the where hill with whom
I went
but my lute changed me — ha!
I shall be chosen to sit in Parliament
like a fool.]
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 14 February 1659/60.
I live in an Appalachian hollow in the Juniata watershed of central Pennsylvania, and spend a great deal of time walking in the woods. Here’s a bio. All of my writing here is available for reuse and creative remix under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For attribution in printed material, my name (Dave Bonta) will suffice, but for web use, please link back to the original. Contact me for permission to waive the “share alike” provision (e.g. for use in a conventionally copyrighted work).