The Restorer

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.

Credit

Author

Devin Johnston

Devin Johnston was born in Canton, New York, in 1970 and grew up in North Carolina. He received a BA from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Johnston is the author of several collections of poetry, including Dragons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Far-Fetched (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); Traveler: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); and Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Date Published

08/01/2012