Several
stitches, several catches, mounting stinted greens
Churls of green, forks, flaunts around a trunk
The rip-stop snarled bladder sedge, the bluebeard’s trilobe jigged
About its stalk, some perforated dogwood bracts
Milky pink with minute bristle-scutes the woodfern scrawls
And clashes—depths
Depths come compoundingly
Never end, do and
Where what heaven was was
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.
