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Davy Knittle

Davy Knittle's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 580 Split, Caketrain, elimae and APIARY among others. He is an M.F.A. candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he co-organizes the Contemporary Poetics Working Group.

Makes Me Want Bridges

                 Consider, you who peruse me, whether I might
                 in unknown ways be looking upon you.
                                     —Walt Whitman

I too live in ample hills
that's what we have
tumult then roadway then water

Watch me in my tennis sneakers
making caves of my hands

see: your wrists, you first
see: from here to New Jersey

Roebling fury, a deluxe way to see
one route excising another

deciding to reach, see to shine
see: most of what I know is dormant

but so what—it's a carousel
it's ample enough