Joined one to another. I’m all-in. So I notice They do not pass unnoticed. I get it. Reader, I’m aware. Negation’s the key. Worked backward prevaricate Joining a separate portion (portion me out) joined joint one to another. Make unseparate.
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This is what I’m working with—
this & truth.
& for what it’s worth—
Reader,
these’re the -ruly bits—
these’re that what
made it out—
remnants of what I’ll’ve been.
All druthers aside—
isn’t’s a dodge &
unbeknownst—
O, whatsmore, O, terror.
Reader, what’s owed don’t just reveal itself
so tell me what you need and I’ll say it.
Devon Wootten is a faculty member at Whitman College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Fence, LIT, Aufgabe, and Colorado Review, among others. A former resident of Yaddo and Anderson ranch, he holds an MFA from the University of Montana and a PhD from the University of Iowa. He lives with his wife among the wheat fields of southeast Washington. He is responsible for bestamericanyou.com and wikipoesis.com.