A CONTEMPORARY VOICE2026

Floodplain

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love and fear live in the presence of the river a red handprint ought to give a go-home goodbye the water unclean making matters unclear
Via Negativa (2026) ↗

© Dave Bonta. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Plain-text formatting by PotD, shared under the same license. Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 24 August 1663 . http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/08/24/

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This contemporary poem was published on Via Negativa in 2026. Its source link opens the original post; Dave Bonta’s profile connects the poem with his ongoing online project and other selected work.

Source text: Via Negativa (2026). Further reading: all poems by Dave Bonta · Via Negativa: about the project and its contributors.

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