Song of My Beard

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

I sang a song to my beard,
overgrown powder
of my neck and altered head,
brown thing of thorn, bridge
to a brave day abominably bare.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 22 February 1659/60.

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