James Ducat

Plumb Edges

Find a wall. Touch silt.

Get a good foothold.

The mode of supposition

pre-exists:

                   (we are already here)

reverse direction,

             undo dust,

lists of notes soon-to-go missing;

the last exhalations

foraging in oaked offices

where loss sleeps in a drawer.

James Ducat’s poetry has appeared in Carve, Bellingham Review, CutBank, Apogee, Spoon River Poetry Review, has been featured on Verse Daily, and is anthologized by The Inflectionist Review, Orangelandia and others. His chapbook A Field of Nopes is from Bamboo Dart Press.

James holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is associate professor of English and creative writing at Riverside City College, where he advises the literary journal MUSE.