What
can be done with this plastic
fantabulous part
the river squigs through
its multiple woodlot
hung just rained in
so few wordings
crank the round
“vetch” “brake” “everlastings” “and”
stock-sided grasses swung
how long this slow
gravure on
the mind to be plain
From Burnt Mountain by Emily Wilson, published October 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. Copyright © 2025 by Emily Wilson.
Emily Wilson is author of The Great Medieval Yellows (University of Iowa Press, 2015), Micrographia (Univeristy of Iowa Press, 2008), and The Keep (University of Iowa Press, 2001). A visual artist as well as a writer, Wilson lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and western Maine.
