Static

By Devin Johnston

Zipping your skirt, you rustle past,

sand hissing through a glass,

with the Bedouin snap and flash

of static-electric

sparks disturbing fabric.

This morning’s charge could rouse

The Desert Fathers of Sinai

over which I drowse.

Source: Poetry (April 2010)

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Born in Canton, New York, Devin Johnston grew up in Winston-Salem and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Far-Fetched (2015), Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Aversions (2004), and Telepathy (2001)....

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