A CONTEMPORARY VOICE2026

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an account of the morning sitting at the barber’s my thoughts wear off light as thin ice how matters stand with the world troubled how other minds would loiter
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, Saturday 29 August 1663 . http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/08/29/

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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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