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Devin Johnston is the author of two books of poems, Aversions (Omnidawn, 2004) and Telepathy (Paper Bark, 2001), and a book of criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). With Michael O'Leary, he edits Flood Editions. Email a friend >> Printable version >> |
Hog Island Oysters
Oysters adhere
to things, no eyes:
spat on the smooth
curve of a pier
they feel shadows
and snap shut.
The sun wavers
while anchored below
each distills
Tomales Bay,
accreting waves
within its shell.
Voluptuous and cold,
Kumamoto trembles
on a thin fork,
liquefaction
of cloud. Rain
distorts glass,
our tavern submerged
all afternoon. |
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