DEVON WOOTTEN

from Landfall

I imagine you

sleeping

An element

lighter than the sea

What is

essential

I could not

unknow

In this way

A hand

Unpaired

In a dream

you borne-flect

You crement-

bown

Intimate

unsee

Your mother-

far-shore

Purposed

to what

Re-

move

The age I notted

water-tight

Bespoke I

-persed

-joined You

Fused

Wrought-place

My hands

Starred

A shawl

Hemmed

Across the sky

Fired to hardness

Blooms

Cusp the hull-tone

The cracked flame

Tightening ropes

The hipped jar

Drink what holds you

Ember-lidded

Stir the air

O mortar-seed

Your lip drossed &

Whole

The lashed knot

I blest

You

Pin the near star

You

White-lighted

The word you candled

Trees

My semaphore

clotted dumb

Tremble the water

Pull the gates

Veined caress

Dawn-fled

Leafless

Sound

The fountain

Redded folds

of cloth

Fosse

What remaindered

Trochate

Lack-throated

Cracks the stems

Tendoned

You

Silt-latched

Blacksmith

Artifice

The lapse-wound

Turn

your anvil

-pulse

Your lips

fashion rough shapes

-posit stone

Your response

Sought reificate

set inward

Bract against loss

Surfaces

re-coursed

Strands

this cumbered part

Blind this wrecked

This constant

More than the well

You fled

Thorns

Limbs

Whither-bound

Reft

Paled close

Scar to you

Among the grasses

attent

a ladder

My hands

callused

Rope-burned