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view of a farm valley with fog and wooded ridges beyond
Posted on August 3, 2021 by Dave Bonta

Landscape with scolding wren

view of a farm valley with fog and wooded ridges beyond

through gaps in the hills
a river of fog
and me here on this wren’s powerline right-of-way
eating lowbush blueberries

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About

Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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Series

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  • Pepys Diary erasure project
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  • Honduran poetry: new translations
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