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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Poem-A-Day: Devin Johnston, The Restorer

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August 1, 2012

Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Devin Johnston. Used with permission of the author.

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    The Restorer
    by Devin Johnston

    Done with mortise and tenon,
    linseed oil and wax,
    she stands back from the highboy
    to snap a photograph with her phone,
    all the while, defending a shim
    to absent interlocutors
    who have, admittedly,
    never seen her work
    and died three hundred years ago.

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