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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Devin Johnston Devin Johnston is the author of three books of poetry, including Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008). Creaturely and Other Essays, reflections on the natural world, is forthcoming from Turtle Point Press in 2009. His book of criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, appeared from Wesleyan University Press in 2002. With Michael O'Leary, he directs Flood Editions, an independent and nonprofit press for poetry. He teaches at Saint Louis University.

Thin Place Devin Johnston

White ash, you wait for me as I will wait for someone. What but skin feels the wind, what darkness makes distinctions? Breaking down dusk and dawn, housewreckers on horse scaffolds syncopate their hammers. Brick dust drifts like smoke, tents of habitation withdrawn, hinges of habit undone.

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